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:
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> > > 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.
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> > 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.
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> So you are saying that's probably not the reason why the users can't
> browse?
Another thing that I've experimented with was that , I pinged the DNS from
a windoze machine configured with an external ip address and I can browse
from there.
The reason why I think the inability to ping the DNS and hence have access
to the DNS is the problem is because the error that appears on users'
machines are that the URLs are unknown.
Sherine
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> Sherine
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