</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">. .I have discovered that I can ping addresses by their full IP address in a DOS prompt but not by their URL at the same prompt.. .</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">This sounds like a DNS problem. DNS is the tool used to convert the name in a url - e.g. pprune.org - to the IP address 209.25.243.164. .. .If you can ping then the TCP/IP connection is up but you cannot access DNS to do the translation. . .. .(Edited after I actually read the question <img border="0" title="" alt="[Roll Eyes]" src="rolleyes.gif" /> ). .. .Are you using "obtain DNS address automatically" or specifying it in the TCP/IP properties?. .. .If it fixes itself after a while then it is almost certainly a problem at the ISP end.. . . . <small>[ 19 March 2002, 09:06: Message edited by: Evo7 ]</small>