Re: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows

2010-05-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Michael B. Smith wrote: > Exchange, since at least 5.5, has had the option of using different DNS > servers > for outgoing resolution; somewhat necessitating it having a different > resolver. I don't know anything about what the DNS resolver code on Windows lo

RE: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows

2010-05-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
es Subject: RE: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows If the SMTP doesn't use the operating system resolver, where does it find the DNS servers that it uses ? Nicolas found that the Windows SMTP Service does its own DNS > resolution of MX records rather that use the DNS resolver from

RE: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows

2010-05-06 Thread Michael B. Smith
27;t tell about.) Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:09 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows On Th

Re: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows

2010-05-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Carol Fee wrote: > If the SMTP doesn't use the operating system resolver, where does > it find the DNS servers that it uses ? Only Microsoft knows for sure, but my guess is that Exchange gets the IP address(es) of your full-service resolvers from the OS, but the

RE: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows

2010-05-06 Thread Carol Fee
-0024 CFee -Original Message- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:jasongu...@npumail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 4:36 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows Very Interesting... (and not surprised here either) I guess they need to read Joels

RE: FYI - MSFT doesn't tell all it knows

2010-05-05 Thread Jason Gurtz
Very Interesting... (and not surprised here either) I guess they need to read Joels article I linked yesterday too ;) Well, I guess if there are ever host resolution issues on Exchange I'll know that I'd be wasting my time by doing ipconfig /flushdns Re-inventing the wheel: always a fun time dow