Re: Server 2003 not reading hosts file
- From: "Ace Fekay [MCT]" <aceman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:40:50 -0400
"Michael - Boston" <Michael - Boston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1F13A200-3FC8-41CB-9C71-A4AB18A50930@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I understand what your trying to say exactly.
Host files are only an administrative overhead if used on the clients. If
you could use them on the server and have MS implamentation of DNS consult
the Host file before going to it's forwarders or the hint servers it would
cut your overhead by being able to edit a host file in notepad and not having
to creat all those zone entries, also it would keep the dns server less
cluttered because only the inportant zones will show up.
Sorry I don't have a fix but I see the delema, I have an inpressive host
list myself to keep maliciouse sites away but it sure would be nice to drop
it on just one or two servers and have everyone be able to take advantage of
it. I hope Microsoft considers addressing this.
You would need to create a script using DNSCMD to create zones for all the entries in your hosts file list to put them into DNS. Otherwise, there is no way to populate the DNS server cache, which is different than the DNS server's local cache, which only it's own local client side resolver will use, and will not be used for client queries to the DNS service.
Ace
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