Marcel,

the proxy is not involved here: I also tried some tcp/ip test tools on my
Mac. With all of them I can resolve names, but not with Squeak!.

thanks anyway,

rob

Marcel Weiher wrote:

> > to give more background on my environment: my Mac is connected to
> a ISDN
> [snip]
>
> Are you using a proxy for Netscape?  In that case, name-resolution
> for host-names in Netscape is not done by Netscape itself but by the
> proxy.  In my MacOS-X-Server setup, I have the blue box (MacOS
> emulation running as a process within MOSXS) set up with an IP
> address not known to the outside world, and without a connection to
> DNS.  Both IE and NS can access hosts by host-name via proxy or
> directly using IP addresses, but not directly using host-names.
>
> Marcel

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