DNS problem

• Jan 31, 2003

• #2

GrnEyedLdy

Instructor

Sep 12, 2002

853

US

Furious5,

If you can ping the IP, but not the name...the issue is name resolution.

Can you give us a little more information about your network configuration...

Do you have Wins running on your network?

Just a thought,

Patty

 

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• Jan 31, 2003

• Thread starter
• #3

furious5

MIS

Jan 8, 2003

103

GB

Yep that is exactly what I thought.

At present there is no DNS, WINS or DHCP set up. DNS is provided by the ISP we use.

Each machine is hard coded with IP, Subnet Mask and default gateway.

I have only recently taken over the job and am looking to make wholesale changes but as yet this doesn't help me with this problem!

 

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• Jan 31, 2003

• #4

GrnEyedLdy

Instructor

Sep 12, 2002

853

US

Furious5,

This issue depends on how your 98 machines are setup to access the Internet.

Since you are not using name resolution on your Internal network (and forwarders to your ISP), your machines will need to have the IP address of your ISP's DNS server.

My 98 is a little rusty, but I believe you can statically configure the DNS address of your ISP servers in the TCP/IP properties of your NIC.

Patty

 

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• Feb 3, 2003

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• #5

furious5

MIS

Jan 8, 2003

103

GB

No none of the machines are set up in this way, in the NIC settings they have a static ip, subnet mask and the default gateway address and that is it.

In IE it is set to automatically detect settings.

All the other 10 machines are set up in this way, and they all connect to the Internet fine - the problem is isolated to this one machine.

The settings themselves appear to be correct when compared to another machine.

 

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• Feb 3, 2003

• #6

GrnEyedLdy

Instructor

Sep 12, 2002

853

US

Furious5,

Run a tracert to an address on the Internet and see where your packet loss occurs...for example,

Tracert yahoo.com

Patty

 

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• Feb 15, 2003

• #7

ChrisAC

ISP

Aug 6, 2001

2,158

GB

If the other machines are browsing the internet okay without having DNS settings in the TCP/IP properties then I would think that they would be using a proxy server which takes care of the domain resolution. Maybe your 'trouble' PC isn't using the proxy?

If you don't have DNS servers set up in your TCP/IP settings then you won't be able to resolve off the command line.

Chris.
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Chris Andrew, CCNA, CCSA
chris@iproute.co.uk
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• Feb 16, 2003

• #8

Odissey

Technical User

Apr 28, 2002

172

RU

In one of your "succesful" 98 PC run winipcfg and use its DNS server's address as DNS server's address on your trouble machine vadimp@yandex.ru

 

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• Mar 8, 2003

• #9

NV3X

ISP

Mar 8, 2003

2

US

Are you having this problem still? Try this but of course back up your reg and only rename the files. In the MS KB find Q241244.

 

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• Mar 11, 2003

• #10

eightball

IS-IT--Management

Aug 6, 2001

85

US

Patty had the solution. You need to set the dns on the workstations to point to the ISP's DNS.

 

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