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Date:	Sat, 11 Jan 2003 12:20:29 PST8
From:	Michael Rakijas <mrakijas@oco.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help <scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Various network questions

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Well, I changed the netcard driver in the machine I'm trying to debug and that
didn't change the behavior of the machine.

Skip this paragraph if you recall the problem I'm working on. For those who
haven't been following or have come in the middle of this long running issue,
the major symptom of the problem is that some web sites will not come up in
Netscape, including yahoo.com. Google will come up but the search results page
will not. Netscape will sit there waiting to load the page but it never comes
up. This machine is one of many on my home network, all of which work fine
except for the one I am debugging, the only eCS machine of the bunch. All
machines on the network use my one main machine as an Internet gateway. The
gateway machine has InJoy running on it which provides NAT services to all
others via dialup.

While trying to debug the machine after updating the netcard driver, I tried
Netscape on it and it still had the same behavior. Then, I tried pinging
various sites. Curiously, I pinged yahoo.com and got positive results despite
that yahoo.com will not come up in Netscape. I pinged other sites and got
negative results. These included sites like nytimes.com (which I'll use as my
example). I tried pinging the DNS via its IP (216.171.167.11 and
216.171.167.12, the backup) and got negative results. So, I'm thinking, if I
don't have DNS service, why do I get Google up at all? I tried nslookup on the
eCS machine and it worked fine so now I'm confused. I'm clearly getting some
DNS service.

So I went to the gateway machine, opened a command window. I ping oco.net (my
ISP) and it works fine. I ping yahoo.com and google.com and it works fine. Ping
nytimes.com or latimes.com and no go. So I think maybe the DNS is down so I
ping the DNS via its IP and get nothing. Yet the Web works fine here. All web
sites come up with no difficulty so I am clearly getting DNS services. What is
going on here? Does anyone have an idea.

I tried to do an nslookup on yahoo and I get the following:

[C:\]nslookup yahoo.com
Server: ns1.oco.net*** Can't allocate memory
216.171.167.11

Exception = c0000005 occurred at EIP = 1f02a60b.
SYS1808:
The process has stopped. The software diagnostic
code (exception code) is 0005.

I went to another Warp 4 machine and the nslookup behaved there similarly. I
seem to remember that something in an update (TCPIP? MPTS?) trashed my nslookup.
Since I configure all my machines similarly, it's probably trashed everywhere
except the eCS machine. What nslookup should I be using? Where can I find it?
Should I use the one from eCS? Thanks.

-Rocky

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