D0Thomas said:
What would cause the Ping command to not resolve an address (such as
www.yahoo.com) when the NSLookup utility can resolve the address just
fine?
I have a win2000 client that can ping the IP address directly
(68.142.197.80) but when I ping
www.yahoo.com it says host not found.
Yet, typing NSLOOKUP
www.yahoo.com resolves the addresses ok.
TIA
In addition to Herb's post, the nslookup command has it's own resolver
service, but the ping command uses the system's resolver service, which can
include other factors, such as what Herb mentioned about what DNS servers
are listed, the client side cache, which gets populated from what's in the
hosts file and previous queries.
Plus nslooku is a strict DNS query over UDP 53. Ping relies on the system to
query it.
Are you having any problems with resolving other names?
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