[Xitami] Standalone and DOS

[Joubin Far]

Hi Brian,
Since i have installed Win2000 didnīt work more any web server in standalone
mod on my computer system!!!
After releasing shiny Win XP i hopped for better WX condition but i have
discovered that a lot of programs didnīt run more specaily DOS programs.
If you three times reinstall your MS OS in my case Win XP you find out all
program that worked after first installation donīt work more after 3rd.
intallation and so on, therefor MS has oppend a forprediction_OS instead WX
forcast!!!
Maybe Imatix have to let sertify the Xitami web server by Microsoft as
certified software !!!!!!!
Sorry, i couldnīt find out a newsgroup or mailing list related to running
DNS under Windows and direct at MS you cannīt get any information.
I will try at support department if i would find an Email address.
For any further advice and aid thanks in advance.
Joubin Far


----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian {Hamilton Kelly}" <bhk@dsl.co.uk>
To: <xitami@lists.xitami.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Xitami] Standalone and DOS


> In message <005901c157b8$7e59ae10$b82e9c3e@ednic>
>    joubin.far@t-online.de (Joubin Far) writes:
>
> > I have copied " hosts file " into winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
folder
> > for my virtual hosts.
> > Now if i want to access to an address eg. www.jf.com ( a virtual host
> > address and it was implemented into hosts file)
> > it dosenīt happen in standalone mod but by dialing via my ISP.
> > Standalone only works for localhost.
> > Can someone tell me the reason?
>
> Yes: as was remarked only yesterday, MICROS~1 haven't the foggiest idea
> about TCP/IP, and especially not about the niceties of the hosts file vs.
> DNS.  Consequently, their so-called operating systems (even the fancy
> shiny new ones like XP) do the wrong thing; even when you do your utmost
> to assist them in doing "the right thing", they second-guess you and
> assume that "you know nothing: THIS is the way it's done".
>
> Using OS/2, I could handle your situation by setting the environment
> variable USEHOSTSFIRST; however, because I have to suffer the
> co-existence of various Windoze boxen on my home LAN, I now run a full
> caching nameserver on my OS/2 server, which can satisfy this sort of
> request from the Windoze machines.  When it really DOES need details of a
> domain that is not in its local database or cache, then, and only then,
> does it call my ISP's nameservers (because the boot.db file contains the
> relevant forwarders line).
>
> Now Win2K comes complete with a pretend implementation of a DNS server
> (you're probably better off forcing it NOT to run "from data in the
> registry", when the full expertise of "DNS & BIND" can be applied
> verbatim) which could probably achieve your goal: however, I think you'd
> find better advice on this on a newsgroup or mailing list related to
> running DNS under Windows.
>
> --
> Brian {Hamilton Kelly}
bhk@dsl.co.uk
>     "We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one
of
>     distributed ignorance.  And we know and understand less while being
incr-
>     easingly capable."              Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT
Labs
>
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