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Re: DNS

Check what is ur 
/etc/resolv.conf

and /etc/host.conf

Also man nslookup may give you good input

thanks
Chetan S

___________
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ashish kumar wrote:

> This is not really a programming probelm, but its very irritating.
> 
> Whenever I write ping www.hotmail.com I get an error hostname lookup failure.
> And when I give IP address it works.
> Any help
> 
> Thanx
> Ashish
> 
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