DNS Problems

>From what I hear, you didn't do anything wrong. Qworst/MSN has really
flaky DNS servers. It sounds like you're actually doing th right thing
by jumping off the DSL bandwagon and heading elsewhere.

Good luck.
Bryce C.
Network Administrator
CoBryce Communications
Bryce @ BryceCo . Net


On 15 May 2002 15:06:45 -0700, 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
>
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