On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> Sherine wrote:
>
> > I'm having the strangest problem. I am able to ping everything else in my
> > ISP's LAN except their DNS from my firewall/proxy and hence users on my
> > LAN cannot go out on the INTERNET...ANYBODY know what is happening?
>
> Your ISP probably does, but there's no reason to believe that anyone
> else will.
>
> One possible reason is that their DNS server may have been configured
> not to respond to pings. If you wish to test whether you can use their
> DNS server, try using nslookup or dig. It only matters that it
> responds to DNS requests; whether it responds to a ping is irrelevant.
So you are saying that's probably not the reason why the users can't
browse?
Sherine
>
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> Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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