Like Jonathan and I've been saying, check your VPN rules. You've already stated that name resolution works, per this comment: >> I can ping both the webserver's name and IP address from the >> 172.17.x.x PCs without problem.
From: Bob Hartung [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:03 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: DNS Issue Telnet fails with both name and ip address. NSLOOKUP resolves the name correctly. FireFox gets "The requested URL could not be retrieved" when the ip address is entered. ---------------------- Bob Hartung Wisco Industries, Inc. 736 Janesville St. Oregon, WI 53575 Tel: (608) 835-3106 x215 Fax: (608) 835-7399 e-mail: bhartung(at)wiscoind.com ________________________________ From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:56:02 -0500 Subject: Re: DNS Issue On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Bob Hartung <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > I've tried entering both the name and IP address of the webserver and get > connection fail in Internet Explorer. In FireFox, the error is "Unable to > determine IP address from host name." The Firefox error indicates a problem with name resolution. What if you try by IP address in Firefox? > Telnet gets a "connect failed." By IP address, hostname, or both? And: >> I can ping both the webserver's name and IP address from the >> 172.17.x.x PCs without problem. > > What about NSLOOKUP? -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
