[OLUG] connection error

Chad S. Lauritsen csl at plconline.com
Mon Jan 24 15:16:30 UTC 2000


nate,

This just confirms my initial suspicions that your DNS resolver is broken.
:-(

Nathan Brown wrote:

> Hi again,
> I have gotten a message that I got before but did not repeat when I knew
> how to get it over here to windows ..
> Now I can get it to windows here it is
> This message comes to me when I invoke netscape to go to a site or
> page.  It cannot find the page and gives me this message:
> ____________________________________________
>
> Warning the following hosts are unknown:
>   Home.netscape.com
>   home6.netscape.com
>   internic.net
>
> this means that some or all hosts will be unreachable.
>
> Perhaps there is a problem with your name server?
> If your site must use a non-root name server, you will
> needt o set the $SOCKS_NS environment variable to
> point at the appropriate name server.  It may (or
> maynot) be necessary to set this variable, or the
> SOCKS host preference, to the IP address of the host
> in question rather than it's name.
>
> Consult your system administrator.
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> I just thought this might shed some light on the problem of my
> connections
>
> Thanks again,
> Nate
>
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