FC4 - Cannot resolve hosts, but nslookup works

Vijay Gill vijay.s.gill at gmail.com
Tue Nov 15 18:47:25 UTC 2005


> > I may be missing something in the thread here, ping does not work?
> > Can I see an example?  Is it possible  that the host that you are trying to
> > ping is not answering?
>
> absense of ping isn't proof of much. some security admins drop icmp for
> various reasons, mostly bad ones, but they do it nonetheless.
>
> richard
>

I understand that absence of ping isn't proof of anything. But look at
the results of my commands. Ping is unable to resolve the host at all.
links browser also says unknown host. If icmp was dropped, ping would
not have reported 'unknown host'.




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