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> We have one user who has been reporting sporadic problems for a couple of
> months sending mail from Eudora on dialup from home to local MichNet. When
> she brings her computer to the office so we can troubleshoot it, it never
> fails.
>
> The messages she gets in Eudora are as follows:
> Connecting to the mail server
> Error getting address for "pilot.msu.edu"
> Cause: host not found. (11001)
>
> which sounds like possibly a DNS problem.
>
> Sometimes she exits Eudora, starts it up again and it works. Other times
> she disconnects her dialup, redials and it works.
That does sound like a DNS lookup failure of some sort. It may be
helpful to see the "ipconfig" display to verify what name servers
were in use. It may be helpful to configure 35.8.2.41 and 35.8.2.42
as the name servers of choice for the dialup connection.
Doug
Doug Nelson [log in to unmask]
Network Manager Ph: (517) 353-2980
Computer Laboratory http://www.msu.edu/~nelson/
Michigan State University
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