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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