Glynn,
When issued the command "nslookup" I get the error "Can't find server name
for address aaa.bb.ccc.d: No response from server"
Sherine
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Sherine wrote:
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> On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Glynn Clements wrote:
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> > 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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