Netscape can do DNS by SOCKS. Make sure that the SOCKS_NS environment
variable is not set.
> Jeff Dilcher wrote:
> >
> > you may not be able to successfully resolve the name of the web server.
> > Try substituting in the ip of the server , ie:
> >
> > http://192.168.1.5/directoryofinterest
>
> Okay, I did this and it works. So, a little bit of ignorance here,
> prompts the question:
>
> Why is it I can ping foo.com, but I can't connect to http://foo.com ??
>
> >
> > (where 192.168.1.5 is the proper server address) and see ifthat works.
> >
> > If so, then your dns is not working/configured properly, it would appear.
>
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> I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K then there were with
> Y2K...
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