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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 11:30:37 PST
From: "Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject: SCOUG-Help: nslookup using specified DNS ?

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In <3922DB58.4D3B@peterskye.com>, on 05/17/00
at 09:49 AM, Peter Skye said:

>The current problem is some sort of DNS screwup. Apparently neither the
>Earthlink nor attglobal.net DNS servers have an entry for os2ss.com at
>this time, but Steven Levine (who is on Earthlink) used somebody else's
>(BMT's) DNS server and was able to get to os2ss.com. (In general, DNS
>servers don't authenticate their users by asking for names/passwords, so
>anybody can use anybody else's DNS.)

I don't think that's what I did. My standard DNS servers are Earthlink's.
Tell me if this is not so. I can get the www.os2ss.com via Netscape using
them. What I can't do is get nslookup or ping to resolve the name using
these DNS severs.

Steven

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