IIS5.0 and SMTP.

First and foremost, I'm a total noob to IIS and webhosting. I started
messing around with IIS as I am intending on starting a career in IT. On
installing IIS, I notice that if Default SMTP Virtual Server is not running
and my website is hosted as the Default Web Site, that I could not ping the
website by its domain name - www.sitename.com, could not do a tracert to the
domain name. I have the latest service pack installed (sp4) and have
installed all critical patches on the server (120 day trial version).

What exactly does this virtual server do?

Killer
Sun May 09 22:48:40 CDT 2004


"Killer Bean" <thekillerbean@righthere.com> wrote in message
news:409efa6c$1_3@news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com...
> First and foremost, I'm a total noob to IIS and webhosting. I started
> messing around with IIS as I am intending on starting a career in IT. On
> installing IIS, I notice that if Default SMTP Virtual Server is not
running
> and my website is hosted as the Default Web Site, that I could not ping
the
> website by its domain name - www.sitename.com, could not do a tracert to
the
> domain name. I have the latest service pack installed (sp4) and have
> installed all critical patches on the server (120 day trial version).
>
> What exactly does this virtual server do?
>
Forgot to mention that the actual directory the server is hosting is on
another computer which I'm connecting to as \\servername\sharename. All
these are running on one computer via VMWare.

Kristofer
Mon May 10 03:12:32 CDT 2004

First of all, you do not need SMTP to host a website. I cannot see where
SMTP comes in, in your message, it looks like you are, and want to, host a
website.

Anyway, your problems are telling you that you have a DNS issue. It is
either that the registred name server for your domain is not correctly
configured, or that the DNS settings are not correct on the local machine.

--
Regards,
Kristofer Gafvert - IIS MVP
http://www.ilopia.com - When you need help!


"Killer Bean" <thekillerbean@righthere.com> wrote in message
news:409efa6c$1_3@news.melbourne.pipenetworks.com...
> First and foremost, I'm a total noob to IIS and webhosting. I started
> messing around with IIS as I am intending on starting a career in IT. On
> installing IIS, I notice that if Default SMTP Virtual Server is not
running
> and my website is hosted as the Default Web Site, that I could not ping
the
> website by its domain name - www.sitename.com, could not do a tracert to
the
> domain name. I have the latest service pack installed (sp4) and have
> installed all critical patches on the server (120 day trial version).
>
> What exactly does this virtual server do?
>
>
>

jcochran
Mon May 10 20:24:24 CDT 2004

On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:43:39 +1000, "Killer Bean"
<thekillerbean@righthere.com> wrote:

>First and foremost, I'm a total noob to IIS and webhosting. I started
>messing around with IIS as I am intending on starting a career in IT. On
>installing IIS, I notice that if Default SMTP Virtual Server is not running
>and my website is hosted as the Default Web Site, that I could not ping the
>website by its domain name - www.sitename.com, could not do a tracert to the
>domain name. I have the latest service pack installed (sp4) and have
>installed all critical patches on the server (120 day trial version).
>
>What exactly does this virtual server do?

Runs the SMTP service. Which has nothing to do with being able to
Ping or do a Tracert, which are network connectivity issues, in your
case, name resolution possibly. Try a TCP/IP or DNS group for help
there.

Jeff

Killer
Wed May 12 00:28:32 CDT 2004

Thank you all. I'm not sure what caused the issue, but after rebooting, all
is now working as expected! Nothing was changed prior to reboot so I
believe whatever it was may rear its head again in the future.


"Jeff Cochran" <jcochran.nospam@naplesgov.com> wrote in message
news:40a62af4.53985547@msnews.microsoft.com...
> On Mon, 10 May 2004 13:43:39 +1000, "Killer Bean"
> <thekillerbean@righthere.com> wrote:
>
> >First and foremost, I'm a total noob to IIS and webhosting. I started
> >messing around with IIS as I am intending on starting a career in IT. On
> >installing IIS, I notice that if Default SMTP Virtual Server is not
running
> >and my website is hosted as the Default Web Site, that I could not ping
the
> >website by its domain name - www.sitename.com, could not do a tracert to
the
> >domain name. I have the latest service pack installed (sp4) and have
> >installed all critical patches on the server (120 day trial version).
> >
> >What exactly does this virtual server do?
>
> Runs the SMTP service. Which has nothing to do with being able to
> Ping or do a Tracert, which are network connectivity issues, in your
> case, name resolution possibly. Try a TCP/IP or DNS group for help
> there.
>
> Jeff