Re: What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host"

2006-12-04 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host": $ ping accounts.eirtrade.ie ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.ie: No address associated with name and $ ping accoun

Re: What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host"

2006-12-04 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
If you have the "dig" command available on your machine, you can read its documentation, and play with it. It will make things clear. Look below: in the first case, there is no A record, but there is a SOA record. However, the hostname of the SOA is different from the queried hostname. In t

Re: What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host"

2006-12-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Dec 4, 2006, at 11:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host": The former means there is no A record in the DNS for the hostname, but there is a DNS record for the domain and that it answered th

Re: What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host"

2006-12-04 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host": $ ping accounts.eirtrade.ie ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.ie: No address associated with name and $ ping accounts.eirtrade.i ping: cannot resolve

What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host"

2006-12-04 Thread a
What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host": $ ping accounts.eirtrade.ie ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.ie: No address associated with name and $ ping accounts.eirtrade.i ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.i: Unknown ho