On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 3:37 pm, Margot wrote: > I have tried to ping, and got strange results - when I did ping > www.yahoo.com I got "unknown host www.yahoo.com, but when I tried ping > 66.218.71.83 (the numeric version of yahoo) I got "PING 66.218.71.83 > (66.218.71.83) from 217.134.91.169 : 56(84) bytes of data. I don't > understand why it works by number but not by name.
When you ping by name your machine first has to convert the name to numbers. In your case that step is failing. Check your DNS server setting. -- Richard Urwin
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