Question : nslookup issue

WE have DNS server installed on Server 2003 sp2

and all (or most) websites resolve correctly when using nslookup from the network

however, pop.gmail.com never resolve. and this causing me issues when trying to retrieve emails from outlook clients.

is there a way to manually add the record in the DNS server so that it always resolve to its IP. or what can I do to fix it?

Answer : nslookup issue

pop.gmail.com is an alias, which your ISP dns might have messed up trying to resolve.

you could set outlook to use:  gmail-pop.l.google.com
which is the real "A" record (one of many) for pop.gmail.com
note that's a letter L in there not a one

you don't want to hard-code your own dns entry for pop.gmail.com because, it can change - and you wouldn't know.

this way if the ip changes, it'll still resolve correctly