2003 DNS will not resolve yahoo.com

[techteam]

After upgrading from W2k to W2k3, my DNS will not resolve

http://www.yahoo.com.

Every other site that I can think of works fine. I have cleared the cache and even added a forwarder and still no luck. The old CACHE.DNS file does not appear to be used any longer, thus I cannot go down and clear the entry manually.

What could be blocking this one particular site? It does not affect users connecting to yahoo IM. Just going to the site itself?

 

[markdmac]

I had this exact same problem. It has to do with DNSProbes which are handled differently on Win2K3.

Try running this script on your server.

'==========================================================================
'
' NAME: DNSProbes.vbs
'
' AUTHOR: Mark D. MacLachlan , The Spider's Parlor
' URL: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.thespidersparlor.com[/URL]
' DATE  : 6/10/2004
'
' COMMENT: Fixes problems accessing Yahoo and Microsoft.com
'
'==========================================================================
on error resume next

Dim path

Set WSHShell = Wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

'set the key path here.  IF you don't end with a '\' then WSH assumes you are pathing to a value.
path = "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\DNS\Parameters\"

WSHShell.RegWrite path & "EnableDnsProbes","00000000","REG_DWORD"

If err then
	msgbox "Error Encountered"
else
	msgbox "DNSProbes Sucessful"
End if

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark