I use Lotus Notes Client to connect to mail server but in order to access the mail server i have to make entry of its IP in host file. But while using yahoo mail we dont make its corresponding IP entry in host file. Can anybody tell me when do we need to make an entry in host file and when we dont need?
Why do we enter the IP of mail server in host file when we use Lotus Notes and not when we use Yahoo Mail?
It sounds like whoever set up the notes server decided again using DNS... So you are essentially using the hosts file to turn the server name into the correct IP address for the server.
Yahoo mail, being a web based mail server, has DNS set up on the internet, so your computer can already determine the IP address of Yahoo.com
Reply:Lotus notes is a Third party software which uses the IP address to connect to the corresponding mail server you wish to access e-mails. While Yahoo, an OSP, i.e online service provider, has already IP system set up to its server so that user do not have to make the OSP recognise which server it has to connect to.
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