jkgarner

I am new, justed create an account and downloaded the latesd viewer earlier today. I have yet to connect because I get the DNS error qoated in teh first post. I AM able to access the second life web page from my browser, and every other web-site that I tried. DNS is configured properly on ky machine. (For grins I even pointed ot the google DNS server -8.8.8.8: no joy.) I examined the firewall settings on my software firewall, and enabled the ports listed elswhere in the knowledge base, also no joy, and checked my router settings as well for the ports. Also no joy. If I can not resolve this soon, I will not continue wiht second life at all (no emotional investment: only paind so far!) Others have had the same complaint. Nearly all the 'help' for thes complaints on the support page stops and DNS and tell users to set dns settings, which I have already done, and dop not seem to understand whn the user states clearly: BROWSER CONNECTS TO THE INTERNET USING DNS, SO DNS IS CONFIGURED PROPERLY. IBecause of the frequenfcy of the error, strongly suspect a bug, thougbI would not swear to it yet. For what it's worth, the text of the error message and the info on my system, as contained in the about box for the viewer is pasted below: Login failed. DNS could not resolve the host name. PLease verify that you can connect to teh ww.secondlife.com wegb site. If you can, bugt continue to recieve this error, please go to the support section and report this problem. Second Life 3.2.5 (247236) Jan 5 2012 12:10:23 (Second Life Release) Release Notes CPU: Intel® Core2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz (2992.47 MHz) Memory: 3326 MB OS Version: Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit Service Pack 2 (Build 6002) Graphics Card Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc. Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 3650 Windows Graphics Driver Version: 8.49-080409a-063305C-Dell OpenGL Version: 2.1.7536 Release libcurl Version: libcurl/7.21.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8q zlib/1.2.5 c-ares/1.7.1 J2C Decoder Version: KDU v6.4.1 Audio Driver Version: FMOD version 3.750000 Qt Webkit Version: 4.7.1 (version number hard-coded) Voice Server Version: Not Connected Built with MSVC version 1600