On May 27, 2:26 pm, Clancy Wiggum wrote:
mm wrote:
BTW, is it possible for someone's DNS to be broken when that of other
people's works.

Yes.. It's easily possible.

Does this go by user, ISP, or by the whole world? An honest question.

For the end-users (you and me) it's the ISP that maintains a local
name server and they can break. The ISP gets it's data from root
servers, they are trickled down (propagated).

You *don't* have to use your ISP's name server though. If you
manually configure a name server in Window's "connection properties"
you can enter any publicly available server. I sometimes use 4.2.2.2
and 4.2.2.3 to test if my ISP's is broken or not. There are some
public servers listed he

http://www.opennic.unrated.net/public_servers.html

I have had times when I thought that might be the problem, but I
really don't how it works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dns_server

Thanks for the server information. I was able to get to the site
using it's IP address, so I called my ISP and the tech had me change
the preferred DNS server address to 4.2.2.1 and the URL then worked.

I then went to register the product and it didn't even require the
serial number, so I don't really see the value in filling out their
form..