lookup problem

[Justin Albstmeijer]

dnesday 07 January 2004 10:50, Justin Albstmeijer wrote:
>
>> When pinging to the same hosts.. resolving seems to work..
>>
>> # ping www.xs4all.nl
>> PING www.xs4all.nl (194.109.6.92) 56(84) bytes of data.
>> 64 bytes from www.xs4all.nl (194.109.6.92): icmp_seq=0 ttl=248 time=1.96
>> ms
>> 64 bytes from www.xs4all.nl (194.109.6.92): icmp_seq=1 ttl=248 time=1.45
>> ms
>> 64 bytes from www.xs4all.nl (194.109.6.92): icmp_seq=2 ttl=248 time=1.19
>> ms
>

What I was trying to show here was that the "ping" command seems to be
able to do a lookup (www.xs4all.nl -> 194.109.6.92)

> Ping is using ICMP.... DNS is UDP.... what happens if you try to telnet
> (TCP)
> to www.xs4all.nl port 80 ?

All connections to the outside work fine.