DNS and network connectivity issues

[ian]

Win XP with dual nics. Was working fine then reran "set
up a home network". Gave me errors after that. I
rebooted and more errors. The strange thing is I am able
to ping and tracert to any host on the net (using IP
address) - but can't browse or traceroute using DNS
name. So it sounds like a DNS issue right. OK so I
checked my NIC card settings and I have several DNS
server entries and am able to ping them. But an nslookup
returns errors for all servers saying "can't find server
name for address x.x.x.x: no response from server"

I'm stuck at this point.

Thanks

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

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Can ping public IPs but not web sites

Symptoms: 1. You can ping any public IPs but not web sites. 2. The routing
table and ipconfig look OK but you can't browse any web sites.

Resolutions: 1. Check the DNS, for example using nslookup to
troubleshooting.
2. To test, disable any firewall. If it works after disabling firewall,
re-configure the firewall and make sure the firewall doesn't black port 43..
3. Check the status of winsock.dll, wsock32.dll or download winsockfix to
fix the problem
4. Also try to disable DNS client service if you don't have domain network
or use ipconfig /flushdns to purge the DNS resolver cache.
5. Apply SP.
6. Try to logon another user.
7. Check Event Viewer for any errors
8. Remove and re-install NIC with latest drive.
9. Assign static IP, Gateway and DNS manually.
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"ian" <arouterman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Win XP with dual nics. Was working fine then reran "set
> up a home network". Gave me errors after that. I
> rebooted and more errors. The strange thing is I am able
> to ping and tracert to any host on the net (using IP
> address) - but can't browse or traceroute using DNS
> name. So it sounds like a DNS issue right. OK so I
> checked my NIC card settings and I have several DNS
> server entries and am able to ping them. But an nslookup
> returns errors for all servers saying "can't find server
> name for address x.x.x.x: no response from server"
>
> I'm stuck at this point.
>
> Thanks