You are the Exchange administrator for Northwind Traders. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain that contains a single Exchange organization.
The Exchange servers are named Exch1, Exch2, and Exch3. All three run Exchange Server 2003 and host user mailboxes.
You discover that users who have mailboxes on Exch1 cannot send email messages to users who have mailboxes on Exch2.
All other email messages flow normally. You run the ping and the nslookup commands on Exch1.
The output from the commands is shown in the exhibit.
You need to ensure that email messages can be sent between all Exchange servers in the Exchange organization.
What should you do?
A.
Remove the entry for Exch2 from the Hosts file on Exch1.
B.
Remove the entry for Exch2 from the Lmhosts file on Exch1.
C.
Manually add the new IP address for Exch2 to the DNS zone for your domain.
D.
Force a reregistration of the DNS resource records on Exch2.
Explanation:
Using the LMHOSTS file is one method of name resolution for NetBIOS names in TCP/IP networks. Hosts file is used for host name to IP resolution and returns the IP address for the specified host name.