On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:53 PM, August <tan.august@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > First, you can try ping the IP of the host > As you can require IP address from DNS, that is not represent the IP(host) > is activing. > Pinging the host is disabled by the firewall. I am almost certain there is no connectivty problem between me and the host as I can connect via the tcp if I specify the IP address: ===== [timl@timl ~]$ nslookup www.bom.gov.au Server: 134.178.14.1 Address: 134.178.14.1#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.bom.gov.au Address: 210.8.42.125 [timl@timl ~]$ telnet 210.8.42.125 80 Trying 210.8.42.125... Connected to 210.8.42.125. Escape character is '^]'. ===== -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines