On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 23:17, Shlomo Solomon wrote: <snip> > > In fact, I had ruled out a DNS problem earlier because the Win98s could reach > most URLs with no problem and there were only a few problematical URLs. I > still don't understand this. I would have thought that if the DNS server was > not funtioning, all translations would not work. I guess I was wrong about > that. But, in any case, that's not really on topic, since I now know that the > problem was not LINUX.
Some ISPs mirror major websites and their DNS returns to their client the IP address of the nearest mirror server. Not sure, but access to those mirrors might be restricted based on the originating IP address (value added service only to the ISP's client). This might explain the different IP addresses you got from DNS. Guy -- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
