Re: Mail Through Firewall

["Peter Marshall" <pmarshal@caris.com>]

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Antony Stone" <Antony@Soft-Solutions.co.uk>
To: <netfilter@lists.netfilter.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:05 AM
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
..
> > 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
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
a
> TCP packet to port 110 on it....
>
> Regards,
>
> Antony.
>
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