Unknown host error message when trying to ping Internet

[Tom Wilson]

On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 14:50, bof wrote:
> pcisys.net uses 216.229.32.173 as their mail server. Their DNS server is 
> 216.229.33.250.
> 
> If I try to dig or nslookup "pcisys.net" I get a "connection timed out. 
> no servers could be reached" message.

Here are the results of my dig.  Looks like your name servers are 
ns1.pcisys.net. 216.229.32.170 and  ns2.pcisys.net.       216.229.32.166

[tw124 at isadm2 etc]$ dig pcisys.net

; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> pcisys.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 22031
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 3

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;pcisys.net.                    IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
pcisys.net.             86400   IN      A       216.229.32.173

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
pcisys.net.             86400   IN      NS      jerry.pcisys.net.
pcisys.net.             86400   IN      NS      ns1.pcisys.net.
pcisys.net.             86400   IN      NS      ns2.pcisys.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.pcisys.net.         84756   IN      A       216.229.32.170
ns2.pcisys.net.         84756   IN      A       216.229.32.166
jerry.pcisys.net.       86400   IN      A       207.76.102.251

;; Query time: 84 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.0.3#53(192.168.0.3)
;; WHEN: Fri Aug  1 14:58:19 2003
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 148


--TOm Wilson