On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 13:25 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The system on which I'm writing this can't access www.naxos.com . > Another system with the same network interface (A 2-Wire Home Portal > attached to a DSL line) has no trouble. Typical results are from > > Firefox: www.naxos.com could not be found. Please check the name > and try again. > > $ host www.naxos.com > www.naxos.com has address 202.130.166.101 > Host www.naxos.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > Host www.naxos.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) > > $ ping www.naxos.com > ping: unknown host www.naxos.com > > However naxos.com, which has the same IP address, seems to work much > better: They don't have the same IP. "www" has 101 as the last octet, "naxos.com" has a 201 as the last octet. My guess is that the entry for "www" in their DNS is incorrect. > > $ host naxos.com > naxos.com has address 202.130.166.201 > naxos.com mail is handled by 10 email.naxos.com. > naxos.com mail is handled by 20 postoffice.naxos.com. > $ ping naxos.com > PING naxos.com (202.130.166.201) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 202.130.166.201: icmp_seq=0 ttl=235 time=192 ms > 64 bytes from 202.130.166.201: icmp_seq=1 ttl=235 time=192 ms > ... > > > I'm running FC4 with the latest upgrades on an AMD x86-64 system, all > latest upgrades installed. My other system (which has no trouble) is > FC4, slightly out of date, on an i686 system. > > What's going on? Does my computer have a virus? No, naxos' DNS entries are incorrect. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Where there's a will, I want to be in it. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------