Re[2]: Mail Through Firewall

[Alexis <alexis@attla.net.ar>]

if you have configured a dns (1 or more) outlook will ask to windows
about the name resolution, OS then will try any possible method to
find the name, so if Windows cannot resolve the name via Netbios, it
will use dns, and then any other service if configured.



Hello Peter,

Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 12:07:05 PM, you wrote:

PM> How do I tell outlook to look up using DNS instead of NetBIOS ... ?

PM> ----- Original Message ----- 
PM> From: "Antony Stone" <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
PM> To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
PM> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:05 AM
PM> Subject: Re: Mail Through Firewall


>> On Wednesday 18 February 2004 1:57 pm, Peter Marshall wrote:
>>
>> > Hey, I am sure this question is going to seem trivial to everyone here
PM> ..
>> > but I will ask anyway.
>> > I want to get outlook to work on my inside box .... I have it all set up
>> > correctly, but it can't find the pop / smtp servers ...
>> >
>> > I ran ethereal to see what the problem was ...
>> > When I try to connect I get 3 requests
>> > source 10.0.0.2
>> > dest 10.0.0.255
>>
>> That's a broadcast address...
>>
>> > Protocol NBNS
>>
>> Ugh.   M$ Outlook trying to use NetBios Name Resolution instead of DNS :(
>>
>> > source and dest ports: 137
>>
>> NetBios....
>>
>> > and I get no reply's ... ( well, I get an arp request after the 3rd try
>> > ...) Any ideas how to get this working ?
>>
>> Tell the client machine (or Outlook, if this is one of those things which
>> Outlook tries to look after by itself, never mind how the rest of the
PM> machine
>> has been configured), to resolve names by DNS, not by using NetBios.
>>
>> Then it might sensibly look up the IP address of your POP3 server and send
PM> a
>> TCP packet to port 110 on it....
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Antony.
>>
>> -- 
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>> Blaster].   However, these products are no longer supported.   Users of
PM> these
>> products are strongly encouraged to upgrade to later versions."
>>
>> (which *are* affected by MS Blaster...)
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/security/security_bulletins/ms03-026.asp
>>
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>>



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 Alexis                            mailto:alexis@attla.net.ar