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On Tue, 24 Feb 1998 03:42:59 -0800 (PST), Jim Michael wrote:
>> Yep--that worked as far as dd.tdc.com is concerned. I telnetted out
>> there and got a system banner. *However*, the Downloader still refuses
>> to access Dial/Data's host. It would appear to be having a problem
>> looking up the DNS entry, even though I have verified that the client
>> machines can resolve host names just fine. I just wrote a rather
>> lengthy reply concerning this in a previous post.
>>
>> Any help and/or light you can shed would be greatly welcome.
>
>Ping the server to determine the IP address and see if downloader
>can access the host using the IP address. If so, sounds like DNS
>problem. I deleted previous messages on this, is a firewall involved?
Yes--I tied our machines together into a peer-to-peer network, and am
using Wingate as the proxy-server for Internet access for all machines.
I'm really not certain this is a DNS problem anymore, since I have
verified that DNS resolution works correctly on the client machines.
Plugging the IP address in directly yields the same results. The
Downloader sits there with the QuoteCenter dialogue box "Retrieving the
Host Name" and then fails. The next step is "Logging onto the
Internet", which it never gets to. Everything seems to be in place
correctly, and all other programs work great accessing the Internet
(from mail clients to browsers to telnet to ftp, etc....). It's just
Metastock holding out on me... ;-)
Dave.
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