[dowmun]

I am using FreeBSD 4-10 as a router for a small home network. When I try to go to a website with an underbar in the address, I get a pop-up window telling me that the site cannot be found, and to check that I am entering the correct address.

There are both Windows and a Linux machine on the network, and the address fails from both. I have changed ISP's recently, so I think they are not causing the problem. I have tried changing the underbar to an " ! " and an " @ " sign, with the same result.

I believe I have something set wrong in FreeBSD that is causing this problem, but I do not know where to start.

Thanks for any help.

[Kernel_Killer]

What site are you trying to reach,and is it on the local network, or outside your network? Can you access the site from the IP instead of the address?

[dowmun]

The site I am trying to reach is outside my local network. It is <marsa_sellers.tripod.com>

I may be doing this next part wrong, but I typed
<nslookup marsa_sellers.tripod.com>
and got the IP address
209.202.240.100

I put this IP into mozilla on my linux machine (a machine on my home network) and it took me to
www.tripod.lycos.com

I can search this site and find a link to the site I want

<marsa_sellers.tripod.com/geneticspages/page0.html>

but when I try to go to it, I get the same pop-up, telling me the site could not be found. I should mention that this is a valid site since I seem to be the only person who cannot access it.

Is this what you meant for me to do? Thanks for your help.

[frisco]

Where are you running the nslookup from? If it is from a machine that is having browsing problems, then i would guess that the problem is in the web browser - are you using the same one on each machine?

If the problem is instead with your dns server, a quick workaround is to edit /etc/hosts (on windows look for the hosts file in c:\windows\system32\ i think) on the local machines to include an entry like:
209.202.240.100 marsa_sellers.tripod.com

You may have to restart the browser after that, but then maybe you'll be able to get to that site.

Good luck

[dowmun]

I did as you suggested, and am able to access the site now.
Thank you very much.