[Bioperl-l] Bio_Tools_Run_RemoteBlast error: 500 Can't connect to www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80

[Martin Heusel]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 17:32, Alicia Amadoz <Alicia.Amadoz at uv.es> wrote:

>> ping www.ncbi.nih.gov
> PING www.ncbi.nih.gov (130.14.29.110) 56(84) bytes of data.
>
> and nothing else.

Right, same here, seems like this server is not configured to answer pings

but the name was resolved successfully into 130.14.29.110 so DNS works.

Can you ping some hosts outside of your network like

ping www.google.com ?

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