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On 21:13 29 Mar 2002, Hytham Shehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| hi John,
| i test it, i put my isp 'menanet.net' and the nameserver like this:
| search menanet.net
| nameserver 163.121.42.4
| nameserver 163.121.42.5
| now i can ping the ip of such 163.23.33.2, but i cann't ping something like
| www.microsoft.com, why?
1: Are those IP addresses (for the nameservers) correct?
2: Does /etc/nsswitch.conf list this line:
hosts: files dns
which says to use /etc/hosts first and then DNS.
3: www.microsoft.com seems to be firewalled: you can't actually ping it.
Does ping recite an IP address to you or say "unknown host"?
If the former, then DNS is working.
If the latter, the DNS is still not right.
Cheers,
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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
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The map is not the territory.
The symbol is not the thing symbolized. - S.I. Hayakawa
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