>I have added a new Forward lookup zone for IMCU.COM on my local active >Directory. >I have added an ‘a’ record for 10.0.50.4 for mail.imcu.com in that zone. >I do not resolve the mail to the ip. >If I add that record in my hosts file I can browse it easily. >What is wrong in my DNS set up? >Server 2003 active directory.
Recycle the dnscache service. If you looked it up before your new fwd zone was instantiated, your dns server returned a failure response and it was cached. The hosts file lookup doesn't use this. This does assume your client is using that dns server and it and the zone are setup correctly... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin