Bruce, I concur with Scott on this one. Every time a resolution is needed, the resolution items are checked in order.
At boot up, the HOSTS and LMHOSTS files are read into CACHE. That may be what you are thinking. Remember the old saying, Can We Buy Large Hard Drives? John Tolmachoff MCSE CSSA Engineer/Consultant eServices For You www.eservicesforyou.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott MacLean > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 4:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Re[2]: [IMail Forum] DNS Used Rather Than Hosts for Local Mail > Servers > > At 06:29 AM 8/18/2003, Bruce Barnes wrote: > > >Did you REBOOT after modifying the HOSTS file? The hosts file is only read > >by the operating system at the time of the system boot. If you are running > >a Windows based operating system, changes made without rebooting a machine > >will not be known by the OS until the machine is rebooted. > > In what universe? > > This is completely false. Try this: Modify your HOSTS file, add a bogus > entry like this: > > 1.2.3.4 whatever > > Then, without rebooting, open a command prompt and try to ping "whatever" - > it resolves it from the HOSTS file immediately. > > _______________________ > Scott MacLean > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 9184011 > http://www.nerosoft.com > > > 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/ 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/
