That won't do any good. Their DHCP servers (in Anthem) return three IP's: a 192.168.x.x address, which routes but does not respond, plus the other two mentioned below. Last September (or so), the first DNS failed. Then the second one failed. I confirmed this with ethereal. I called them, and the CSR politely took my complaint. Later that day, a supervisor called me back to explain failover - if the first one fails, it will roll over to the second name server. "Yes," I said, "but your second name server has failed also." It was down for over four days. I set up my old Sparc box (Solaris 7 - see, I use UNIX as well as Unix) as a DNS and got back to work. About once per week I would check on the name servers, and the primary NEVER CAME BACK UP!!! (Never being defined as until Christmas). There's a reason they lost their exclusive contract in Anthem. Something about poor QoS maybe? You can view my notes here: http://georgetoft.com/qwest If you read my notes, you will see the futility in dealing with them. George Matt Alexander wrote: > > Try changing the nameserver entries to different DNS servers, such as: > > nameserver 12.127.16.68 > nameserver 12.127.17.72 > > That should solve your problem. Then give Qwest a nasty phone call and > tell them to fix their name servers and to also close some of those extra > ports as well. Sheesh. Both of their servers are completely unresponsive > to me when doing lookups. > ~M > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Frank Mandato wrote: > > > Here is the resolv.conf the way it set up > > > > > > domain qwest.net > > nameserver 206.80.192.1 > > nameserver 204.147.80.81 > > search qwest.net > > > > > > > > Matt Alexander wrote: > > > > > What does /etc/resolv.conf say? > > > > > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, 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 > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________ > > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > ________________________________________________ > > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss