[plug] curious network snag

[sol]

It's all fixed now.

ta,

sol

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 05:08 pm, Jeremy Malcolm wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 03:03:29 +0000 (UTC)
>
> sol at autonomon.net (Sol) wrote:
> > Okay, so I check a few things out:
> > 1. pings - can ping mail.terminus.net.au from PC but not from laptop;
> > can ping ftp.uwa.edu.au from both PC and laptop
>
> Hate to say this but it may just be name resolution for terminus.net.au
> - we have have just switched over from connect.com.au to NameScout as
> the registrar because the old name servers listed by connect were no
> longer operational.  Before the change went through some name lookups
> were failing.  Maybe your PC had the IP address in its hosts file or was
> using a different DNS server to your laptop.