"Bao C. Ha" wrote:
>
> Do you have foo.com in /etc/hosts?
No. This is too wierd. traceroute can find it by name as well. It's
just Netscape that seems to be brain dead. This gets real wierd. I can
telnet to the damn thing, I can ping it, traceroute finds it, netscape
freaks.
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> On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Jeff Dilcher wrote:
>
> > I can't think of any reason why you can ping foo.com but can't http
> > to foo.com, but can http to the I.P. address of foo.com.
> >
> > Is foo.com an internal domain?
> > Is your linux machine identified as being a host on this domain in your network
> > setup? Check linuxconf...
> >
> > Perhaps there is a chance that a DNS is thinking that foo.com does
> > not exist within your network, and is trying, unsuccessfully, to find
> > it on the internet? I am grasping here, but I saw that in Atlanta
> > public school's NT system, so it is possible. It would seem, however,
> > that that would impact "ping" as well..
> >
> > Anyone?
> >
> >
> > > 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 ??
> >
> >
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I'm afraid there will be more problems with W2K then there were with
Y2K...
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