Re: How to resolve DNS properly?

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From: Graham Philip Crowe
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 00:00

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Michael Werle (n0962601@droid.student.fit.qut.edu.au) wrote:
: Le Roy Chong (mf041574@student.uq.edu.au) wrote:
: : I'm a newbie and just managed to set up my ppp link to my server (UQ).
: : Problem I'm having is that I can only telnet, ftp and ping to UQ and not
: : anyway else. Example, I ping say sunsite and the name resolves properly to
: : its IP address, but all the packets that are sent don't get acknowleged. I
: : think it's a problem with /etc/resolv.conf but I donno how to modify it to
: : work properly. It looks like this now:

: Hi Roy!

: If your dial-up is anything like QUT's (which is physically located at UQ)
: then you will not be able to ping or tracert outside UQ due to their 
: firewall security.

: Michael.

UOWs firewall does this too, I tried a tracert and it just bounced around
between the gateways.

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From: gpc01@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (Graham Philip Crowe)
Subject: Re: How to resolve DNS properly?
Date: 1997/09/24
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