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From: "Brian Bruns" <bruns AT 2mbit DOT com>
To: "Jeff Mikels" <jeffweb AT mikels DOT cc>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 11:38:53 -0400
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On Monday, August 02, 2004 11:35 AM [EST], Jeff Mikels wrote:

> It looks like I'm having a DNS problem
>
> C:\trash>ping sources.redhat.com
> Unknown host sources.redhat.com.
>
> C:\trash>ping redhat.com
>
> Pinging redhat.com [209.132.177.50] with 32 bytes of data:
>
> Request timed out.
> Request timed out.
> Request timed out.
> Request timed out.
>
> Ping statistics for 209.132.177.50:
>     Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
>     Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  0ms, Average =  0ms
>
>
> I'm using SBC Yahoo! DSL through a linksys router/firewall
> my DNS is set to
> 206.141.192.60
> 206.141.193.55


Try changing your DNS servers - you are welcome to use 24.123.221.2
for testing purposes, and I usually also recommend using
204.117.214.10,  199.2.252.10 , or  204.97.212.10 , which are caching
name servers for Sprint, which I use often and work fine.

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