On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:53 PM, August <tan.august(a)gmail.com> wrote:
First, you can try ping the IP of the host
As you can require IP address from DNS, that is not represent the IP(host)
is activing.
Pinging the host is disabled by the firewall. I am almost certain
there is no connectivty problem between me and the host as I can
connect via the tcp if I specify the IP address:
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[timl@timl ~]$ nslookup
www.bom.gov.au
Server: 134.178.14.1
Address: 134.178.14.1#53
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:
www.bom.gov.au
Address: 210.8.42.125
[timl@timl ~]$ telnet 210.8.42.125 80
Trying 210.8.42.125...
Connected to 210.8.42.125.
Escape character is '^]'.
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