Russell McMahon wrote:

>> I've been on the net for about the last hour and half - no problems!
>> Maybe it's a paradise thing.
> 
> Paradise no go via alpha name which *should* mean Clear generally.
> IHUG DNS's didn't fix it.
> Woosh down too.
> 
> BUT using ping on eg www.google.com etc
> gave a normal echo AND plugging the IP address into the browser gace 
> Google etc.
> 
> SO seems like a DNS server error affecting at least 3 NZ ISps but NOT 
> the DNS used for ping.
> 
> Anyone know how Windows resolves IP addresses for Ping?

AFAIK the dns resolution is the same for ping and for http, ftp and other
application protocols (set at that one place in the connection
configuration). But the protocol used to transmit the data is different
(icmp for ping, tcp for http). AFAIK in general, routers and firewalls have
different configurations for different protocols. It is easily possible
that somewhere upstream from you icmp passes but tcp doesn't. Since the
name resolution works with ping, your connection to your dns server seems
to be fine.

Gerhard

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