Search Again: Re: Windows and QuickDNS From: Sam Narayanan Date: Sunday, June 10, 2001 Time: 12:35:08 pm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Men & Mice Support" <cbuxton@menandmice.com> To: "QuickDNS Talk" <quickdns-talk@lists.menandmice.com> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 12:55 AM Subject: Re: Windows and QuickDNS > At 8:36 PM -0400 6/6/01, Dave Cooper wrote: > >Chris, > > > >You referred to putting in a PTR record for Windows. Does this mean that > >each Windows box has an entry or that one entry will work for all Windows > >boxes? > > You need one PTR record per IP address. From your description, you > already have them for your Mac workstations. Add more for your > Windows workstations, one per machine. > > >I would qualify your criticism that I've misconfigured my mail server by > >stating that I'm merely using the controls provided. If they are doing > >something illegal, then its something built into the code. > I had an issue with my new windows machine and ASIP mail server a while back. I configured the new win2k machine(actually replacement) with the new NETBIOS name. The user from that machine, although has valid username and password for ASIP mail server, couldn't log in into the server. I checked the log. It said new netbios name is not a valid user. Then I changed the netbios name to what was before. The user didn't have any problem. I figured that the following was the issue. For example, Let's just say Springfield Nuclear Power Plant has the domain name snpp.com Currently, Homer has a machine with the host name homer.snpp.com enlisted in DNS server. As an admin, I feel that changing the win2k machine's name that homer uses(I can't imagine him using Mac, Since his brain is implanted with Intel chip) to homers-console would be better. I name his machine as homers-console and set the properties at the TCP/IP configuration panel to suffix the domain name path with the netbios name to get the FQDN. Now his machine's host name is homers-console.snpp.com. Yet I haven't made any changes to the DNS. It remains as homer.snpp.com. Now when the ASIP mail server, if it is set to query the DNS for each connection, contacts the dns server to resolve the FQDN or get the PTR record, it will reject the connection due to mismatched hostnames. I hope this helps. The problem I had was similar to the situation above. Changing the netbios name to hostname on DNS record helped in my case. Sam Narayanan Systems Admin

Messages In This Thread: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 6, 2001 at 10:02:47 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by andrew on Jun 6, 2001 at 10:27:52 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 6, 2001 at 2:33:14 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Aaron Lynch on Jun 6, 2001 at 3:30:35 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 6, 2001 at 4:03:36 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 6, 2001 at 5:30:35 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 6, 2001 at 5:37:11 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 6, 2001 at 9:55:57 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Dave Cooper on Jun 8, 2001 at 8:36:47 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Men & Mice Support on Jun 8, 2001 at 9:50:57 am Re: Windows and QuickDNS by Sam Narayanan on Jun 10, 2001 at 12:35:08 pm Re: Windows and QuickDNS by micaelac on Jun 11, 2001 at 6:08:00 pm