>>And, I found out, it is the same reason I can't connect to UT's chat room.
>>Our network folks arn't too knowledgeable on Win2000, their W2K guru gave up.
>>Anyone know what's necessary to make it work?
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>>I don't think this box can translate a world name to a quad address .We're running through a proxy server using wsock32.dll (V5.0) and I can' find any DNS quad numbers in the network setup. But, I tried using a public DNS number and it didn't seem to help.
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>Does your proxy server have the necessary IP ports open to connect these services?

After my msg of complaint the network guys came around and added specific quad numbers with ports 80 and 1080 to my proxy settings. So now I can ftp and download... but RealPlayer still complains about not finding a DNS server...