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My news server has been telling me all morning that it can't talk to
news.individual.net:

warning: news.individual.net: cannot resolve host name: No address
associated with hostname

.... but I see plenty of people are managing to post using it.

Doesn't worry me, because my server has plenty of other servers to talk
to, but has anybody else noticed any issues? I suspect it's a problem
with my ISP's DNS.

 

Yep, seems to be ..

% /Users/desmond/Desktop/MamboV4.6.2.tar (257) ping
-c4 news.individual.net
PING news.individual.net (130.133.1.4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 130.133.1.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=242 time=59.186 ms
64 bytes from 130.133.1.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=242 time=58.188 ms
64 bytes from 130.133.1.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=242 time=58.298 ms
64 bytes from 130.133.1.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=242 time=59.957 ms

--- news.individual.net ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 58.188/58.907/59.957/0.719 ms

D.

 

I know.

See what?

 

You are probable right. In the mean time, set your DNS servers to use
opendns (free) if you are able to.


208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

 

I've just remembered that I can get in to my router from here, so I can
ask the router to look up the address, which it'll do using my ISP's
DNS... which gives me back a valid address, so I guess that's not the
problem.

I suspect something's been cached somewhere.

Hmmm... I've looked at using OpenDNS before, and decided that I didn't
like the sound of it.

 

Fair enough.