This is where my problem starts. When I ping my ISP I get good pings but only 204.47.44.4, but if I try the name, dallas.net, I get nothing as I have not be able to establish a link to the DNS. I can ping my own machine and my ISP by IP numbers only. Can you ping any of your nameservers? (By IP address, not name, of course.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org