[abrogard]

Hi...

I've a client machine on a small win2000 Lan here in China. The lan keeps on losing the internet but I discover that a programme busy downloading is still downloading - and a web page I have I can still refresh.

But no new web pages can be found.

Ping reports 'unknown name' on a name ping and times out on an IP number ping.

The internet is effectively not there, but it is there. So I surmise the DNS server has gone down.

That server is outside our lan I suppose.

My question is: how can I check that this is really the problem. What might cause it. What can we here in the lan do about it - i.e. can we have our own dns server or something... or restart theirs?

regards
abrogard

[Ali]

Hey... ihad the same problem last night for some time. i could only check my mail on my pop3 server with utlook exp. but it would not open any other pages. My ISP is LOOK Commiunications and i could go to Look.ca but not any other website in the world!!!!

that was the first time it had ever happened to me. how would such a thing happen? ;(