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My ISP (BT) quite often have DNS failures that stop me surfing the web or reading my mail.
This can be a common cause of pages you know are there but fail to load. An easy way to get around this is to make yourself a hosts file with the ip addresses of your favourite web sites.
To get the ip address use the Terminal command nslookup:
nslookup www.cnn.com
Your DNS server responds with something like:
$ nslookup www.cnn.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Name: cnn.com
Addresses: 64.12.50.121, 207.25.71.5, 64.12.50.217, 207.25.71.23
207.25.71.25, 207.25.71.27, 207.25.71.29, 64.12.50.153, 64.12.50.249
64.12.48.217, 64.12.48.249
Aliases: www.cnn.com
As you can see some servers have more than one address. The first one will do. Then add this ip address and hostname to NetInfo (for OS X, which I won't go into here) or your OS 9 hosts file. For those who don't know, pre OS X host files are just text files in the format:
[hostname] [ip address class] [ip address]
with each record seperated by a blank line, eg:
www.cnn.com A 64.12.50.121
www.apple.com A 17.254.0.91
Use the TCP/IP control panel to select the hosts file (Advanced user mode), and you're singing. Your favourite sites will be available now, even when your ISP's DNS servers crash.
This can be a common cause of pages you know are there but fail to load. An easy way to get around this is to make yourself a hosts file with the ip addresses of your favourite web sites.
To get the ip address use the Terminal command nslookup:
nslookup www.cnn.com
Your DNS server responds with something like:
$ nslookup www.cnn.com
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Name: cnn.com
Addresses: 64.12.50.121, 207.25.71.5, 64.12.50.217, 207.25.71.23
207.25.71.25, 207.25.71.27, 207.25.71.29, 64.12.50.153, 64.12.50.249
64.12.48.217, 64.12.48.249
Aliases: www.cnn.com
As you can see some servers have more than one address. The first one will do. Then add this ip address and hostname to NetInfo (for OS X, which I won't go into here) or your OS 9 hosts file. For those who don't know, pre OS X host files are just text files in the format:
[hostname] [ip address class] [ip address]
with each record seperated by a blank line, eg:
www.cnn.com A 64.12.50.121
www.apple.com A 17.254.0.91
Use the TCP/IP control panel to select the hosts file (Advanced user mode), and you're singing. Your favourite sites will be available now, even when your ISP's DNS servers crash.