Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:33:13 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= <nagylzs@freemail.hu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host" Message-ID: <45748609.4000707@freemail.hu> In-Reply-To: <457480F9.3080106@freemail.hu> References: <20061204195429.GA920@host.my.domain> <457480F9.3080106@freemail.hu>
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> > If you have the "dig" command available on your machine, you can read > its documentation, and play with it. It will make things clear. Look > below: in the first case, there is no A record, but there is a SOA > record. However, the hostname of the SOA is different from the queried > hostname. In the second case, there is no A record, there is a SOA and > the hostname of the SOA and the queried hostname are the same. So in > the first case, we cannot know if the host is registered at all. In > the second case, the hostname is registered for sure, but it has no A > record. (However, subdomains like www.eirtrade.ie can have A records...) > > #dig accounts.eirtrade.ie Sorry, try this with accounts.eirtrade.i instead of accounts.eirtrade.ie. :-)
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