And vice versa.  Some DNS servers don't allow pings (or ICMP traffic) but 
*do* (obviously) allow DNS traffic via TCP (transfers) or UDP (queries)...

Using a NS query tool (like host, dig or nslookup) is a good idea, like Jeff 
suggests.

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Rasmussen" <jeff.rasmussen at gmail.com>
To: "TCLUG Mailing List" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] DNS woes continue


> Can you ping all of the DNS servers (209.46.63.1)?  You might have a
> firewall issue if you can ping but not resolve names.
>
> The host program allows you to resolve DNS names using any DNS server you 
> want.
>
> Usage: host DNS.name.to.lookup DNS.server.to.use
>
>
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