Re: What is the difference between No address associated with name and Unknown host

2006-12-04 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between No address associated with name and Unknown host: $ ping accounts.eirtrade.ie ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.ie: No address associated with name and $ ping accounts.eirtrade.i ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.i: Unknown

Re: What is the difference between No address associated with name and Unknown host

2006-12-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between No address associated with name and Unknown host: The former means there is no A record in the DNS for the hostname, but there is a DNS record for the domain and that it answered the question as such. The

Re: What is the difference between No address associated with name and Unknown host

2006-12-04 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
If you have the dig command available on your machine, you can read its documentation, and play with it. It will make things clear. Look below: in the first case, there is no A record, but there is a SOA record. However, the hostname of the SOA is different from the queried hostname. In

Re: What is the difference between No address associated with name and Unknown host

2006-12-04 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between No address associated with name and Unknown host: $ ping accounts.eirtrade.ie ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.ie: No address associated with name and $ ping accounts.eirtrade.i ping: cannot resolve