Can't get on properly to IAS.

Have disabled firewall and Nortons but still no good. Any ideas ?

Hi Puntz,

the "nameserver ip address" is the numerical address of the nameserver. A nameserver is a computer which has a list of names and ip addresses.

IP (for Internet Protocol) addresses are the "phone numbers" for each computer on the internet. The nameserver is the "white pages", where you can look up a name, and get the phonenumber.

When you type http://www.propun.com.au into your browser to come to this website, your browser goes off and asks it's local nameserver "what is the phone number for http://www.propun.com.au", and then goes and dials the number.

To get the nameserver address, you will need to ring your ISP. Even those of us "in the know" generally need to ask our ISP at least once what their nameserver address is. (there are some very well known public ones, but it's generally best to use your ISP's first, and the public ones as a last resort). When you ring your ISP, they might say "heh, you don't need it, Windoze will get it automatically"... just explain that you're not using windoze, and that you really do need the ip address.... It should be a number of the form
203.xxx.xxx.xxx

Cheers,
Chris.

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He said to himself that it is time to start over again with a new batch who might be able to do better than this bunch of humans are doing.


So he called up three men, George W Bush, Mikhail Kasyanov and Bill Gates.


They are the three best media for getting his message across.


He told them that he was disappointed with mankind as it is and that he was going to destroy the earth in 30 days.


They had to go back to earth and tell everyone this message.



George W Bush held a press conference at the White House and said I have some good news and some bad news.

The good news is that our belief in God is true, I met with him this morning. And the bad news is that he will destroy the earth in 30 days.



Mikhail Kasyanov addressed the Russian people from the Kremlin and announced that he had some bad news and some really bad news.


First the bad news, our denial of God is not true, there is a God and I met with him this morning.


The really bad news is that he is going to destroy the earth and we only have 30 days to repent.




Bill Gates went back to his people and told them that he had some good news and some great news.


First the good news is that our belief in God is founded, I had a talk with him this morning....


....and the really great news is that we will be able to stop releasing security patches for WindowsXP in less than a month!



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Stebbo,
so then the "nameserver IP" is the company the internet bill is paid to in a number format.


[ This Message was edited by: puntz on 2004-01-31 00:26 ]

On 2004-01-15 14:47, puntz wrote:
Stebbo,
so then the "nameserver IP" is the company the internet bill is paid to in a number format.

Hi Puntz,

essentially yes.... it will be the number of one of their machines... depending upon the size of the internet company, they may have multiple computers performing separate tasks... but yes, it is one of their computers.


One more question.
Those 255.255.255 set of numbers. (netmask)
If it's set 255.0.0.0, is this a threat to ones internet security on a ADSL connection when it is configured in the external firewall PC ?

Sorry, but I don't have enough information to answer that one.... A netmask determines what part of an IP address is considered "local", and what part is considered "external", so the netmask can have a bearing on security.

Cheers,
Chris.

Not sure what you are getting at MyHatMyCoat - just 2 forum-friends sharing a particular focus :wink:

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Crash
There seems to be a general problem with the IAS site.
I would not recommend you do anything to your computer.
I only use Ozeform form search and this is acting up in the same way. Just happened now after I had been using it for about 30 mins.
Gives up the ghost and refuses to load and occasionally bits and pieces, like a jigsaw puzzle, show up.

Good one Paddy !!!

Now, how do I divide up my 80 gig. in two so I can have a duel Windows/Linux operating system so when my Windows XP crashes I still have Linux !!??

Thanks Gordo, getting too 'similar' and 'politically correct' through fear to express indeviduality, was called Fascism in Italy [God, it must have been boring ! ]. Lets not sink into it here.

Imagele,

Thanks for that. Strange, as what is happening to you [ bits and pieces] is exactly what is happening here. Freaky !!

Cheers.


[ This Message was edited by: crash on 2004-01-15 21:39 ]

Puntz the easiest way to help you is if you tell me what you are setting up and the name of any softwear you are useing....you should not have to supply a nameserver....but if need as stated your isp can provide...and it is not the name of your computer it is an address of a computer that holds the ip address of other computers

Crash, I have pondered on this, and from what I gather, it better to have seperate PC's
One for Linux, and another for Windows.

This is the point though, both PC's probably need to be on the net.
Somehow, the Linux can be what they call a Gateway to the net. That means the wires go to the modem from the Linux, and then another wire comes out of the linux, I think it has to go a hub, and from the hub, to the windows box.
I stand to be corrected, but somewhere I read a dual boot HDD is awkward to maintain.


[ This Message was edited by: puntz on 2004-01-15 18:40 ]