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How does the AddressWizard resolve names ?

April 26, 2017addresswizard names resolve

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How does the AddressWizard resolve names ?

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The AddressWizard has two options for resolving DNS names. One option is to use standard WinSock calls. This leads to a reverse DNS call, if there is no entry in the windows “hosts” file. Then the DNS server configured in Windows is used. You can locally speed up the resolve-names process, if you have a hosts file which is as complete as possible (and of course as up to date as possible). If you altered the hosts-file, you have to restart for the changes to take effect. The other (default) option is to configure the program to send the reverse DNS request packets directly to the DNS server(s) configured in the AddressWizard network configuration. This works very fast compared to the usage of WinSock calls. However you can`t use this option if the AddressWizard and your DNS server are running on the same machine.