On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:20:02 +0530, "____________ (Anand M R)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> I tried the above but now when i try to ping www.google.com
> ping: unknown host www.google.com  is what i get.
> 

The problem lies in the DNS.

When you set the proxy, http requests go through the proxy.. including
the url.. so if the proxy server machine has a DNS resolver IP
configured, the proxy will be able to resolve the IP and thus will be
able to get the data. 

But when you ping from your machine, it does not know how to reach the
pinged machine as you niether have it in /etc/hosts nor have you
configured a DNS resolver IP on your machine.

So you have to configure a DNS resolver IP on your machine if you want
to be able to ping.

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