Sandy replied:
> Yes and no. This message means that your DNS config is completely > hosed. Your server thinks that it is a root server--a server with its > own local authoritative info about the "." (root) and the TLDs (like > .COM, .NET, et al.). Obviously, this is not the case, but the server > is acting as if it is a "big gun" on the Internet, which means that > consulting more authoritative servers (forwarders) is logically > impossible. Sandy, I guess I don't understand how my server can be working fine for nearly two years and yet have its DNS "hosed". If being "hosed" is so bad, then how is it that the server has been running fine for 2 years? This "unknown host" issue happens less than 0.001% of the time. > This hosing usually happens during original setup of Windows 2000, if > you don't have a connection to the Internet and don't indicate as such > to the setup program. To undo it, you're going to have to uninstall > and reinstall DNS. Well, I did install Windows 2000 Server on my server before I delivered the server to the service provider. Things worked fine one the box got to the server farm and we hooked it up. > IMail's settings, if present, will override Windows'. But there's no > reason to have known unreliable servers in either place. I would just > stabilize the Windows selections and let IMail use those. How does one stabilize one's service provider's upstream DNS servers? Philip To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
