help with DNS Machine...Newbie for life

Wed Aug 29 00:41:37 UTC 2001

Scott.Wiseman wrote:

> what does this exactley mean?
>
> 08/28/01 16:40:02 dig 216.184.208.169 @ dns.avidware.com
> Dig 169.208.184.216.in-addr.arpa at dns.avidware.com (216.184.208.169) ...
> failed, couldn't connect to nameserver

Not to be flip or anything, but it looks like your box couldn't connect to
the nameserver at 216.184.208.169. Either the nameserver is not running,
not listening on that address, or there's some sort of network problem.

- Kevin