How do I tell outlook to look up using DNS instead of NetBIOS ... ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Stone" <Antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- > "Note: Windows 98, Windows 98SE and Windows 95 are not affected by [MS > Blaster]. However, these products are no longer supported. Users of 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 > > Please reply to the list; > please don't CC me. > >
