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Author Re: DNS settings on IIS box (for SMTP server)
David Thielen

2006-02-17, 10:41 pm

Hi;

What happened is I posted to smtp_nntp and then a couple of hours
later, getting desperate I posted to iis as smtp_nntp does not have a
ton of traffic.

thanks - dave


On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:32:52 -0500, Sanford Whiteman
<sandy@cypressintegrated.com> wrote:

>
>It is, since there's a better newsgroup for it, iis.smtp_nntp, and
>you've also "fake" cross-posted there. If you're going to cross-post,
>please really make your news client puts both newsgroups in the
>header, so our clients know to cross-reply and save a ton of wasted
>energy.
>
>
>Yes, it likely is. People have problems when they point internal
>machines to a DNS server publishing public IPs. Most enterprise
>firewalls won't allow the "loopback NAT" necessary to get the traffic
>to go out to the external i/f on the f/w, then back inside. And even
>if they do, that's a ton of wasted traffic. The solution is either to
>run a private IP version of your DNS zone for internal users, or use
>"remote domains" in IIS SMTP (the latter being much easier) to force
>mail to use an internal smarthost.
>
>If the above does not apply, pls follow my recommendations in the
>other newsgroup.
>
>--Sandy



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