On 2008-05-14 16:54, MIchael Leone revealed:

ML> I'm curious as to why you are using hosts files, instead of DNS. Wouldn't
ML> that avoid errors such as the above? Especially since the server should be
ML> auto-registering itself in the DNS.

Because hosts don't share the same internal DNS-structure, but several 
groups of machines have their own AD, resolvers etc. Then hosts is a must.

//Oscar

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