Thanks, I need some luck --- OTOH, my wife has a w2k box and not a bit of a problem resolving domain names,   as a matter of fact I
used her pc to get some IP addresses so that I can check out my box.

FrankM



"Bryce C." wrote:

> >From what I hear, you didn't do anything wrong.  Qworst/MSN has really
> flaky DNS servers.  It sounds like you're actually doing th right thing
> by jumping off the DSL bandwagon and heading elsewhere.
>
> Good luck.
> Bryce C.
> Network Administrator
> CoBryce Communications
> Bryce @ BryceCo . Net
>
> On 15 May 2002 15:06:45 -0700, Frank Mandato wrote:
> >    I can not access any website with their FQDN, however I have no
> > problem getting anywhere when I use the numeric IP addresses.
> >
> >   I had to change my server name to its numeric IP address in order to
> > send or receive mail.
> >
> >   I am not running any DNS servers on my machine, sometimes I can use
> > domain names, sometimes I can't. I am with qwest ( not much longer ) and
> > I have a domain parked at zoneedit.com that I use on this machine as a
> > test bed.
> >
> >   I have no problems pinging IP addresses, but can't ping domain names.
> >
> >   My distro is RH 7.2 kernel 2.4.9 and I am using a Netgear NIC.
> >
> >   Anyone have any ideas what I did wrong??
> >
> >   TIA
> >
> >   FrankM
> >
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