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[Norton Trevisan Roman]

no, I'm afraid I'm a little bit useless in unix... I have a client... and
I can connect, using the DNS server from my provider (the university),
with nslookup and ping... but not with http

with ping and nslookup, both ip addresses and domain names work

norton
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On Wed, 12 May 2004, Johan Kielbaey wrote:

> Hi,
>
> So you have your own dhcp and dns server. You're able to ping any host
> within your own network with it's dns name, but you can't connect to
> any host outside of it.
>
> Have you tried pinging with an IP adres? eg www.google.com =
> 66.102.9.99
>
> A problem might be that you didn't configure the records for the root
> servers correctly.
>
> your named.conf file should contain something like
>
> zone "." {
>      type hint
>      file "root.dns"
> };
>
> and then you need to create a file containing records for each of the
> root nameservers. you do this with the command dig :
>
> dig > root.dns
>
>
> At home i don't go directly to the root nameservers. All the dns
> reqeusts for hosts not in my network are forwarded to my ISPs
> nameserver. It requires these lines in named.conf.
>
> options {
>         ...
>         forward only;
>         forwarders {
>          ... (ip adresses of nameservers ISP)
>         };
> };
>
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "cache.db";
> };
>
> Greetz
>
> Johan
>
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> Date    : 12/05/2004 - 17:24
> Subject : http
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> NTR> I've set up dns through dhcp in my computer (client)... everything works
> NTR> with dns, except for the http conextions...
>
> NTR> wget get stucked in the "connecting to" part... if I try to get a local
> NTR> page, even using dns, and not any local address, it's fine... but pages
> NTR> outside my domain are unreachable...
>
> NTR> any ideas?
>
> NTR> norton
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