To: SJ - Stephen who wrote (6525 ) 1/30/1998 10:44:00 PM From: Jerry Murtaugh Read Replies (1) | Respond to
To anyone that cares to read this, here is little advice,
concerning the net and the use of it to reach Datek.
Whenever I have an important place to go to on the net, I
always resolve the address to numeric. In doing so I eliminate
the DNS server, (Directory Name Server) which is simply a link in
the chain that can break, and often does. I believe since I have
been on the net my ISP's DNS server has broken or become corrupted
at least three times. In using numeric addressing you bypass the
DNS server, as the DNS servers job is to convert written address
to numeric.
What really brought me to this subject and subsequent rant is an
earlier post that had Dateks instructions for using their direct
dial in PPP connection.... If you read the instructions you will
note that there is no DNS server... You will see that the instructions
point you to an numeric address, which is their home page... 0nce you
get to their home page and click on customer login,(an numeric address)
you will reach their login page....0nce you get to their login page
and click on any of the buttons, Y0U ARE G0ING ABS0UTELY N0WHERE, as it
is all none numeric links, and there IS N0 DNS SERVER. If anyone from Datek
is reading this, I hope you fix this before some poor soul finds out
the hard way.
Below is a group of addresses I have resolved and use in my browser.
I have listed only the 0rders server addresses that appear on the
login page.
Datek home page -------- 207.159.94.6
Datek login page ------- 207.159.94.6
0rders2 ---------------- 207.159.94.2
0rders4 ---------------- 209.3.82.14
0rders6 ---------------- 208.140.149.8
0rders7 ---------------- 208.140.149.11 (no confirmation)
I hope this info. can spare you some grief in the future, and may
you all be able to reach Datek and place your orders. :)
Jerry
