dnesday 07 January 2004 10:50, Justin Albstmeijer wrote: > >> When pinging to the same hosts.. resolving seems to work.. >> >> # ping www.xs4all.nl >> PING www.xs4all.nl (194.109.6.92) 56(84) bytes of data. >> 64 bytes from www.xs4all.nl (194.109.6.92): icmp_seq=0 ttl=248 time=1.96 >> ms >> 64 bytes from www.xs4all.nl (194.109.6.92): icmp_seq=1 ttl=248 time=1.45 >> ms >> 64 bytes from www.xs4all.nl (194.109.6.92): icmp_seq=2 ttl=248 time=1.19 >> ms > What I was trying to show here was that the "ping" command seems to be able to do a lookup (www.xs4all.nl -> 194.109.6.92) > Ping is using ICMP.... DNS is UDP.... what happens if you try to telnet > (TCP) > to www.xs4all.nl port 80 ? All connections to the outside work fine.