Ok, cool. I stand corrected. Yes, everything would be running through a proxy of some variety somewhere. Will have to look out for it next time it occurs. I wouldn't expect the Uni DNS servers to fall over but stranger things have happened.
Sam Moffatt http://pasamio.id.au On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Alex Blewitt <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 Mar 2010, at 09:13, Sam Moffatt wrote: > >> Network itself is fine, everything still works with network > > DNS is used to initially resolve a text name (e.g. www.skype.com to > 78.141.177.7). Once you've got that resolution, then all networking > operations just use the numeric IP address; so existing resolved connections > will continue to work. Even if you disconnect and then reconnect, the result > of the lookup will still be in the local cache on the system, so it will > probably be able to reconnect. > > Since DNS is often a blocker, that's why I raise it as a potential issue. It > may be that no DNS lookups work from your laptop once it's connected. You can > verify this by opening a Terminal (presumably, outside of the network first!) > and then once connected executing a lookup for a domain you haven't looked up > before (say, www.foo.com) by doing 'host www.foo.com'. This should come back > with a numeric result; if it doesn't, or takes time, then your DNS is > suspect. Note that using a browser to do this test is invalid, since the > browser may be connected to a proxy and not do any local lookups. > > Alex > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacFUSE" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacFUSE" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macfuse?hl=en.
