DNS settings making email slow

[newmodestmouse]

I am having speed issues accessing https sites. When i add numbers to the dns settings in tcp/ip, it makes Outlook slow down to a crawl when it tries to resolve names from the exchange server. To fix the internet issue, besides entering #'s into dns, i have to change the default gateway from the router, to the firewall. Otherwise, i can not access the internet. Is this part of the problem? Also, it works fine with Win98, the problem only happens on NT machines. Any ideas?

 

[Guest_imported]

Modify you hosts file on the individual machines to have
the IP address then the server name. This makes a drastic
difference in the access to Outlook it does not have to resolve the name.
Jerry