DNS IP numbers should be in the TCP/IP control panel. Typically they are
automatically assigned along with your IP number when your dial in. Since you're
running an older OS I'm not sure exactly what it looks like. It's been a few years
since I was using that old of an OS with dial-up. In the newer OSs you can manually
enter the DNS IP numbers even if your own IP number is being automatically assigned by
the PPP dial-up server.
As far as pinging goes, look for a program called MacPing or WhatRoute. If you can
ping the IP number but not the name then it's a DNS problem. For example, here I've
fired up MacPing and entered www.apple.com. It resolved to IP number 17.112.152.32.
That's what the DNS does. It converted the name to the IP number. BTW, the
152.11.243.108 is my Mac's IP number but don't try pining that as I'm behind a
firewall and it won't get through.
Source: [152.11.243.108] --> Destination: www.apple.com [17.112.152.32]
RESULT
PKT# TIME LENGTH
success 1 5 56
success 2 5
56
success 3 5 56
success 4 5 56
success
5 5 56
Packets out/in/bad/%loss = 5/5/0/0
Round Trip Time (Ticks)
min/avg/max = 5/5/5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Now I ping the IP number of www.apple.com.
Source: [152.11.243.108] --> Destination: [17.112.152.32]
RESULT PKT# TIME
LENGTH
success 1 6 56
success 2 5 56
success
3 5 56
success 4 5 56
success 5 5
56
Packets out/in/bad/%loss = 5/5/0/0
Round Trip Time (Ticks) min/avg/max =
5/5/6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
That too works. I'm guessing that in your case when you ping apple's IP number it
will work but when you ping www.apple.com it won't because your DNS is not working.
It's not able to resolve what www.apple.com is. If you use WhatRoute you'll have even
more options to play with including a trace route, query, and whois functions. But
MacPing is simple and quick. I can email it to you if you don't already have it or
can't locate it. It's a very small program.
....................................................................
Tom Roth * tel 336.716.4493
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Dept of Biomedical Communications
Medical Center Blvd * Winston-Salem, NC 27157
http://www.wfubmc.edu/biomed/
> ----------
> From: Hardy Menagh
> Reply To: PowerBooks
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 4:20 PM
> To: PowerBooks
> Subject: Re: PBook Ghost Connections
>
> At 4:52 PM -0500 1/16/2003, Tom Roth wrote:
>
> >Ask your ISP for the DNS numbers. They aren't top secret. You should
> >also try pinging some known IP number. If pinging works then it's got to
> >be a DNS problem.
>
> Aren't the DNS numbers displayed in the "Connected To" field of the PPP
> control panel? If so, I have a bunch of them. I connect to one every time I
> try. How do I go about pinging one?
>
>
> Hardy Menagh
>
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