Greetings all,
the problem that is haunting me is that i can't seem to wget on my my new debian distro.
whenever i issue somerthing like:

wget -r http://www.unicode.org

on the terminal, nothing can be downloaded;the following error message crops up:

--15:09:06-- http://www.unicode.org/
=> `index.html'
Resolving www.unicode.org... failed: Host not found.

how can i solve this problem?as u know , 'wget' is SUCH an useful tool
aru

Seems to work fine with me:

will@SuSE:~> wget -r http://www.unicode.org
--12:42:33-- http://www.unicode.org/
=> `www.unicode.org/index.html'
Resolving www.unicode.org... 69.13.187.164
Connecting to www.unicode.org[69.13.187.164]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 21,647 [text/html]

100%[===============================================================================>] 21,647 27.85K/s

12:42:34 (27.80 KB/s) - `www.unicode.org/index.html' saved [21647/21647]

Loading robots.txt; please ignore errors.
--12:42:34-- http://www.unicode.org/robots.txt
=> `www.unicode.org/robots.txt'
Reusing connection to www.unicode.org:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 973 [text/plain]

100%[===============================================================================>] 973 --.--K/s

12:42:34 (9.28 MB/s) - `www.unicode.org/robots.txt' saved [973/973


Check your firewall first

since i am a newbie, i have to ask:
how do i check the firewall?
don't scold me

first of all. what is your distro?

DEBIAN

try this then:
#su
[pass]
cd /home/USER/
#wget -r http://www.plainfaqs.org/linux/dvdplay/