On Thursday 06 May 2004 10:13, Karasik, Vitaly wrote: > - did you try to ping by name or by IP? > Only if second works and first fail, you have DNS problem. If both fail, > there is nothing DNS related.
Actually, this is not correct. Ping tries to resolve IP addresses in it's output to symbolic names. If you have a DNS problem, then even pinging by IP can fail (usually it jsut gets "stuck" waiting for resolver to time out) unless you supply the options "-n" to ping. Gilad -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Codefidence. A name you can trust (tm) http://www.codefidence.com "I am Jack's Overwritten Stack Pointer" -- Hackers Club, the movie ================================================================= 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]
