Login failed. DNS could not resolve the host name.

[Jerick Merlin]

I have no problem logging into www.secondlife.com, but the application rejects me.  This has been the case for weeks.  What the hell.  Not very user friendly apparently!

[Rolig Loon]

This is a problem especially for Mac users.  See https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-25627 and consider adding your vote.  Meanwhile see the solution here: http://neilrobinson.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/a-fix-for-dns-errors/.

Basically, it amounts to adding the following additional DNS servers to your DNS settings in Network settings under System Preferences:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220



[Charolotte Caxton]

I had the same issue. I am not on a Mac. What I did was turn off my firewall and logged in. I then logged out, restarted my system, the firewall turned itself on automatically and I had no more issues. Rolig's answer is definitely correct, but since I am not on a Mac and didn't know how to mess with my DNS, that's what I did and it worked.