Sherine wrote:
> > > I'm having the strangest problem. I am able to ping everything else in my
> > > ISP's LAN except their DNS from my firewall/proxy and hence users on my
> > > LAN cannot go out on the INTERNET...ANYBODY know what is happening?
> >
> > Your ISP probably does, but there's no reason to believe that anyone
> > else will.
> >
> > One possible reason is that their DNS server may have been configured
> > not to respond to pings. If you wish to test whether you can use their
> > DNS server, try using nslookup or dig. It only matters that it
> > responds to DNS requests; whether it responds to a ping is irrelevant.
>
> So you are saying that's probably not the reason why the users can't
> browse?
It may be related, i.e. if the DNS server is completely unreachable,
you won't be able to ping it or send it DNS queries. However, it's
possible to disable replying to ping requests, but still reply to DNS
queries.
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