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Old 05-25-2018, 06:11 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Minglewood View Post
If so, have you been out of service? I've not been able to access BOTH Eartthlink's east and west news servers for about two weeks. Tech support baffled. Any thoughts?
Not sure if this applies to you but when I checked, my ISP's DNS servers did not resolve news.west.earthlink.net, news.east.earthlink.net, nntp.earthlink.net or news.earthlink.net. Retrying the lookup against Google's DNS servers, came up with news.east.earthlink.net, news.west.earthlink.net and nntp.earthlink.net all resolving to the same IP address of 216.168.4.170 which was pingable while news.earthlink.net resolved to 209.86.52.64 which was not pingable.

On a Windows machines, open a command prompt and type in "nslookup news.east.earthlink.net" and see if it returns an IP address. If not, try "nslookup news.east.earthlink.net 8.8.8.8" and see what it returns. Remove the ";s from the strings.

Code:
C:\Users\David>nslookup news.west.earthlink.net 8.8.8.8
Server:  google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address:  8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    earthlink.us.supernews.com
Address:  216.168.4.170
Aliases:  news.west.earthlink.net
          nntp.earthlink.net
          earthlink.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net


C:\Users\David>nslookup news.west.earthlink.net
Server:  removed
Address:  removed

Non-authoritative answer:
Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    news.west.earthlink.net
Good luck.
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