Patrick, the windows equivlant to *nix's host file is in: c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\ Thats on a win2k server the winnt dir can be called windows in some installs
---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Patrick Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:52:49 -0400 >Unfortunately when I was hired, I was hired because of my >expertise with Linux/Unix, since then our Windows guru >left and I am now to be the windows guru, which I am not. > >Where and how is called that host file in windows 2000 >( aka /etc/hosts ) > >Thanx Brad, I'll check on that solution.. is not quite ellegant but >until our >DNS problem is solved, this could to the trick. > >Brad Morgan a �crit : > >>>My question is why IMail don't use 127.0.0.1 for self service querying? >>> >>>Is there a reason for that. >>> >>> >>> >>I can't answer this question but my guess is that since under normal >>circumstances, the name resolves to the local IP address, this optimization >>isn't necessary. >> >>Have you tried adding an entry to the server's hosts file so that when it >>queries DNS for its own IP address, it gets the local address? You could >>even resolve the name to 127.0.0.1 if you'd prefer. >> >>Regards, >> >>Brad >> >> >>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/ >> >> >> >> > >-- >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Patrick Ouellet - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Administrateur des serveurs reseaux >Informatique - Poste 130 >Microtec Technologies inc. >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >GPG Key ID & Fingerprint: 0x4D4B1AF0 >BCC0 2F96 1596 BBF9 CEB5 5576 18CF 5C9F 4D4B 1AF0 >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > >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/
