Search Again: Re: I''ve done it now ... From: Men & Mice Support Date: Saturday, March 4, 2000 Time: 8:52:00 pm At 3:09 PM -0800 3/3/2000, David M. Cole wrote: >At 12:00 PM -0800 3/3/00, QuickDNS Talk wrote: >>I am not sure this is a dns problem. I cannot even ping 207.249.83.182 >>or (ns1.newsinc.net) > > >Hmmm. So I can TB2 into the box via TCP/IP from a machine on my network, >but you can't *ping* from the outside? For the benefit of the list, I'd like to report our findings. As a review: Symptoms were that the server could not be contacted for DNS purposes, and couldn't contact other servers. It looked like maybe it couldn't be pinged, but that turned out not to be the problem - I was able to ping it. Another server on another IP address on the same LAN was accessible for DNS queries. The problem turned out to be a corrupted QuickDNS Options file. It doesn't happen often, but it does occasionally happen. When the options file is corrupted, the server often misbehaves. This can also happen if the user removes all the root server entries. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: I''ve done it now ... by David M. Cole on Mar 2, 2000 at 11:30:00 pm Re: I''ve done it now ... by Mia''s Virtual Post Office on Mar 2, 2000 at 11:50:00 pm Re: I''ve done it now ... by Men & Mice Support on Mar 4, 2000 at 8:52:00 pm Re: I''ve done it now ... by David M. Cole on Mar 4, 2000 at 10:31:00 pm