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Date:      Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:33:13 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nagy_L=E1szl=F3_Zsolt?= <nagylzs@freemail.hu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: What is the difference between "No address associated with name" and "Unknown host"
Message-ID:  <45748609.4000707@freemail.hu>
In-Reply-To: <457480F9.3080106@freemail.hu>
References:  <20061204195429.GA920@host.my.domain> <457480F9.3080106@freemail.hu>

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> If you have the "dig" command available on your machine, you can read 
> its documentation, and play with it. It will make things clear. Look 
> below: in the first case, there is no A record, but there is a SOA 
> record. However, the hostname of the SOA is different from the queried 
> hostname. In the second case, there is no A record, there is a SOA and 
> the hostname of the SOA and the queried hostname are the same. So in 
> the first case, we cannot know if the host is registered at all. In 
> the second case, the hostname is registered for sure, but it has no A 
> record. (However, subdomains like www.eirtrade.ie can have A records...)
>
> #dig accounts.eirtrade.ie
Sorry, try this with accounts.eirtrade.i instead of 
accounts.eirtrade.ie. :-)



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