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Date:	Tue, 8 Jun 2004 11:02:56 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: Lost That Streaming Feeling {was: Chapman, this Sunday ?}

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Peter Skye wrote:

> > Dink asked me to run it command line, with a direct URL he suggested. The
> > error I got was "Unable to Resolve Host." However, the browser is working
> > just fine. Steve S., Steven ? In the meantime, I've written back to Dink.
>
> That message means the DNS couldn't find the dotted decimal IP address
> for the url you gave.

Yes, but in Dink's test, I WAS using the dotted decimal format.

> Here's what you need to do: Run NSLOOKUP plus the url's domain name
> (example: "NSLOOKUP SCOUG.COM") and then take the dotted decimal IP
> address and use it instead of the domain name (i.e.
> http://12.345.67.89/somepage.htm). You shouldn't get the "Unable to
> Resolve Host" message if you do that.

I know that ANY station I select from the Shoutcast gateway produces this same
error. I can certainly try YOUR post-Lookup test, using dotted decimal IP
addresses for the stations, but I think it's a very safe bet that the result will
be the same.

> I can't tell you why the browser works and Z! doesn't. I don't know how
> Dink is resolving the domains. As far as I know he uses the A record,
> same as a browser (mail clients use the MX record) but maybe there's
> some other kind of DNS record for multimedia files (ask Dink).

Interesting, but this is over my head. I may pose this question to Dink.

> If you want me to check from here, tell me what url you're using.

Do you have Z! installed, and set up (per Dink's instructions) to receive
Shoutcast streams ? If you intend to do any more than try to resolve an address,
this will be a prerequisite. I don't know what happens if you click on a link,
and have no way of receiving the stream -- that may be pointless. Otherwise, the
front door of their station portal is at http://shoutcast.com/

> Do you get the same "Unable to Resolve Host" error message on _every_
> radio stream, or just this one?

ANY and EVERY.

Even though it would have been a PITA to track the responsible setting down, I
was kind of hoping the culprit was going to be the firewall. Now that that's
fallen out as a possible contributing factor, I'm really in the dark. Nothing
relevant should have changed here since this was all working well, as a matter of
course. But now it doesn't.

This may be a job for Jerry Rash . . . .

I tried your DSLAM link, and it crashed 4.61. (I'm still doing my mail in 4.61,
and some browsing.) Will have to view that with Mozilla.

Jordan

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