Thanks ppuru.
It seems to be able to find a few addresses, but most cannot be found. For example (using the Firefox browser) I can go to
www.my.yahoo.com and it displays current headlines, movie listings, stock indices, etc. I can click on a headline & it will open the article. I can click on, for example, NASDAQ, and it opens up the "Quotes & Info" page at finance.yahoo.com. I can go to my email folders.
A few minutes ago, when I tried clicking on movie listings, I was getting: movies.yahoo.com could not be found. But now, the movie links are working fine.
But if I click on a tv listing, I get: "tv.yahoo.com could not be found".
Oops, I just tried the movies again & I'm getting: "movies.yahoo.com could not be found."
On the other hand, weather.yahoo.com was working a few minutes ago, but just now I tried it and "weather.yahoo.com could not be found".
If I try to get into one of the folders in my yahoo briefcase:
" f2.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com could not be found". This one has been consistently unavailable since yesterday.
Enough about yahoo. Trying Google: I can open Google advanced search with no problem. I can do a search. For example, I just searched "bombay". I get like 4.3 million hits. If I click on any of the actual links I can't open them: i.e. "www.mumbainet.com could not be found", "www.litb.ac.in could not be found", etc. In every case, the google Cache of these pages opens up just find, but I can't open any of the links on those pages.
I found a few other addresses I can open,like
www.abc.go.com, www.macromedia.com, and they seem to be working fine, including all the links I tried on those pages.
But on the other hand;
www.linuxquestions.org
www.physicsforums.com
www.cprogramming.com
nehe.gamedev.net
all of these "could not be found"
I tried your suggestion and at the terminal command line:
dig
www.google.com
I got:
; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>>
www.google.com
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27196
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 11, ADDITIONAL: 2
(plus more information in an ANSWER SECTION, AUTHORITY SECTION, ADDITIONAL SECTION
I also tried
dig any
www.linuxquestions.org
I got:
; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> any
www.linuxquestions.org
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 27894
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;
www.linuxquestions.org IN ANY
;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
org. 14373 IN NS TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET.
org. 14373 IN NS TLD2.ULTRADNS.NET.
;; Query time: 19 msec
;; SERVER: 167.206.3.228#53 (167.206.3.228)
;; WHEN: Tue Aug 10 11:56:22 2004
;; MSG SIZE rdvd: 90
But remember that I am unable to bring up linuxquestions.org in either browser.
Finally, I opened up pine,and found that I CAN send email from that to my yahoo email account.
I have no idea what's going on here, but I really would like to understand (and fix) it. Can you help?