only some IP clients fail with gethostbyname: unknown error, butbrowsers & nslookup fine...

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only some IP clients fail with gethostbyname: unknown error, butbrowsers & nslookup fine...

 

Greetings

 

On Windows 2000, using putty, or the flashfxp ftp flient, we started

getting the message, "gethostbyname: unknown error" when attempting to

connect to any host, using fqdn, or ip, same error results.

 

This just started out of the blue, and was not an issue before. These

clients had worked fine for years.

 

The strange thing is that from the same machine, we can access any web

site via any browser.

 

Also, when using the command prompt we can ftp into the any site that

flashfxp could before.

 

nslookup works fine too, making it even stranger, is it something in

winsock?

 

What should we do? Can we reinstall something? Is this a known

attack that renders a PC like this?

 

SpyBotS&D says we are clean.

 

 

EarthWerks@gmail.com

[Guest Earth]

Re: only some IP clients fail with gethostbyname: unknown error, but browsers & nslookup fine...

 

Re: only some IP clients fail with gethostbyname: unknown error, but browsers & nslookup fine...

 

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as such and takes away from them the blame of putting it forward without

reason, it does not excuse those who receive it." Let us then examine this

point, and say, "God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline?

Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated

us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where

heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager? According to reason, you

can do neither the one thing nor the other; according to reason, you can

defend neither of the propositions.

 

Do not, then, reprove for error those who have made a choice; for you know

nothing about it. "No, but I blame them for having made, not this choice,

but a choice; for again both he who chooses heads and he who chooses tails

are equally at fault, they are both in the wrong. The true course is not to

wager at all."

 

Yes; but you must wager. It is not optional. You are embarked. Which will

you choose then? Let us see. Since you must choose, let us see which

interests you least. You have two things to lose, the true and the good; and

two things to stake, your reason and your will, your knowledge and your

happiness; and your nature has two things to shun, error and misery. Your

reason is no more shocked in choosing one rather than the other, since you

must of necessity choose. This is one point settled. But