I don't remember if I had already send this mail before but when I use the
command "dig" I get the following "res_send to server
default--aaa.bb.ccc.d: Connection timed out"
And for the command "nslookup" I get this "Can't find server name for
address aaa.bb.ccc.d: No response from server; Default server not
available"
:-(
Yours Truly
Sad One
P.S The DNS is up and running because as I said before, I pinged it from
a windoze machine external to my LAN but uses an ip address in the same
block as the external NIC of the firewall/proxy?
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Glynn Clements wrote:
>
> 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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