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| Thread ID: 45939 | 2004-06-07 22:47:00 | "Resolving host..." | caffy (2665) | Press F1 |
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| 242719 | 2004-06-07 22:47:00 | What does this mean? I often get this in the status bar of Mozilla Firefox, and then an window pops up saying the particular website cannot be found . eg: resolving host www . cnn . com and then window pops up saying www . cnn . com cannot be found . I can tell if I can get into a website: it will say "waiting for www . cnn . com" and then the website loads . It happens randomly, sometimes I can get into PressF1, but not CNN . com or NZ Herald . Sometimes it might be the other way around . It's solved sometimes by closing Firefox, and opening up a new window . Any suggestions as to how this can be solved? Using WinXP Pro, ZoneAlarm, and Woosh |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 242720 | 2004-06-08 00:06:00 | > What does this mean? I often get this in the status > bar of Mozilla Firefox, and then an window pops up > saying the particular website cannot be found . There is a number reason why you are getting that message 1 . There is a DNS problem either with your ISP or the web host 2 . The web server is having problems & is slow to respond Have you giving Woosh a ring & ask them about this? I know some jet stream Jet surf users (including me) who is with xtra is having the same sort of problem |
stu120404 (268) | ||
| 242721 | 2004-06-08 02:06:00 | > 1. There is a DNS problem either with your ISP or the > web host What is the DNS? > 2. The web server is having problems & is slow to > respond > > Have you giving Woosh a ring & ask them about this? Can't, as I'm deaf. I could ask some people to ring for me, i guess.. |
caffy (2665) | ||
| 242722 | 2004-06-08 03:14:00 | This (support.microsoft.com) article might explain the problem also this site Here (www.ncdc.noaa.gov)will check the site for you | johnboy (217) | ||
| 242723 | 2004-06-08 03:17:00 | The DNS server is the "domain name system" server. When you enter www.cnn.com, that means exacly nothing as an address to be used to access that site. It's just a name that people can understand. It has to be translated into a numeric Internet Protocol address, like 132.106.023.003 (a random number ... ;-)) so that the Internet can reach it. The DNS system "resolves" the name. The server provided by your ISP will have a cache which stores the translations for recently accessed sites, so can probably answer instantly for CNN. But if it doesn't know, it will ask a server higher up the chain of DNS servers. Each server can ask higher level ones until an answer is received (perhaps fromthe server which owns the ".com" domain). You'll probably only get the "Resolving " message if the nearest DNS server doesn't know, and is sending a request on your behalf. Otherwise, you'd just get the IP address, your browser would send that out and your screen would start to load the page. |
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