Re: HTTPAPI returns a "Host name look up failed"

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Rich,
>
>> Thanks very much for the reply.  It would seem that the DNS addresses
>> in my configuration were old, no longer used addresses.  Michael
>> Ryan was right on the money in asking me to check the configuration.
>
> Here's why I would not have suspected that:  You told me that a PING
> worked.  PING uses the same DNS resolver (configured with CFGTCP 12)
> that HTTPAPI.  Why did it work for PING and not for HTTPAPI?
>
>

My bet is that he was PING'ing by IP address instead of DNS name.

Charles
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