cant ping website

[Brian McKee]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Jeremy Huntwork
<jhuntwork at lightcubesolutions.com> wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Brian McKee wrote:
>> In your case, it was DNS - because it couldn't figure out who to ping.
>> That's what the 'unknown host' message is trying to say.
>
> Your answer is correct in a sense, but it could be misleading. Yes,
> the reason ping failed was because it couldn't resolve the host. But
> given just that error message, the reason why it couldn't resolve the
> host could be a number of things, ranging from incorrect network
> configuration, to a down gateway, to an unplugged cable, etc, etc.
>
> To just say 'it was DNS' is misleading, because there may have been
> nothing wrong with the DNS setting on the machine or with the name
> servers themselves.


Granted  -  it doesn't tell you what part of retrieving DNS info
wasn't working,  but it's a start.  Sorry I didn't make that clear.

Brian