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A Brief to DNS Caching

Every time your web browser wants to load a web page, it needs to contact a DNS server first, which will translate thewww.domain.com address into a machine readable format – the IP address. The same thing happens when PostCast Server tries to send a message to a recipient. The domain name in the e-mail address is [...]

How to Specify the Hosts That You Want to Openly Relay to All Domains in Windows

This step is for hosts, which are most likely your internal servers that would need to send to all domains on the Internet. It is not recommended to not have any restrictions because anyone can use your server as an open relay. It is recommended to only allow the minimum, necessary hosts to openly relay [...]

How to Configure the SMTP Service to Relay for Internal Domains

Depending on the scenario, it may be necessary to configure the SMTP service to relay inbound messages for your internal domains. Click Start, point to Programs, click Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Services Manager. Expand the tree under the server name, and then expand the Default SMTP Virtual Server. By default, you should have a Local (Default) domain [...]

How to Create Subdomains

Everyone has a “www” subdomain (In “www.yourdomain.com”, the “www” part is the subdomain). The www subdomain is created by, and serves files from, your /htdocs/www directory on the filesystem.

Howto Create a DNSBL to Black Lists well known sources of SPAM

Black Lists are used in the context of email to define the IP addresses or netblocks of well known sources of SPAM. DNSBL defines a method of using standard DNS zone files to store such IP addresses. Standard DNS A RR queries are used to interrogate the black list which is organised as a reverse [...]

How to Configure Squid as an accelerator/SSL offload for Outlook Web Access

Squid can be easily used to provide SSL acceleration services for Outlook Web Access. It can also speak SSL to the backend Exchange server. Later versions of Squid-2.6 support all the methods used by WebDAV by default. Please consider upgrading to the latest Squid-2.6 STABLE release before attempting this