It finally happened to me!

Hey Phil,
I think that guy you beat for the Easler was me :p
Nah, but a couple of years ago you did pick up the nicest small hunter on his table (that I had my eye on too). Good score.
Sorry I missed you guys.
 
RavenQ8, Here's the important line from the error message you got from Internet Explorer when trying to reach J Nielson's website:
Originally posted by ravenQ8
Cannot find server or DNS Error
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What it's telling you is that your DNS service (probably provided by your ISP) can't resolve the "friendly name" of www.mountainhollow.net into a tcp/ip (internet) address or can't reach the address if it did resolve the name.

Here are two quick tests you can try:

1. type the following address into the Address bar on Internet Explorer. If you can reach it, your DNS service can resolve .net addresses and *should* be able to resolve mountainhollow.net as well.
http://www.microsoft.net
(it's just a .net mirror of www.microsoft.com)

2. Open a Command Prompt window (or Cmd window, aka DOS window for us oldtimers) and type in this command:
tracert www.mountainhollow.net

You should see something like the following. The important part is the line that reads "Tracing route to www.mountainhollow.net [66.36.102.0]" because that tells you that your DNS server resolved the name to the address okay.
D:\>tracert www.mountainhollow.net

Tracing route to www.mountainhollow.net [66.36.102.0] over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 150 ms 149 ms 139 ms sense-sea-focal-pm3-8.oz.net [216.39.128.78]
2 149 ms 149 ms 139 ms 216.39.128.124
... and so on

HTH, -- Greg --
 
Funny story Gary.., been there a few times myself...lol.


"Hunters seek what they [WANT].., Seekers hunt what they [NEED]"
 
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