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DNS issues on WinXP

  • 21-10-2006 12:25pm
    #1
    jabaroon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,

    My winxp sp2 machine is powered on 24x7 and on average about once every 1-3 days, DNS (I believe) gets screwed up such that I cannot connect to most sites. Some sites still work (which ones do varies from time to time) and programs using IP continue to work fine (such as bittorrent).

    I do a repair on the connection, disable and re-enable, reset the DSL modem etc... but nothing fixes the problem but a reboot of the XP machine.

    Any ideas whats going on, its seriously annoying!

    Cheers,
    Jab


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  • #2
    ressem
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,426 ✭✭✭ressem


    You wouldn't be using Esat/BT broadband by any chance?

    A few friends have been complaining about similar problems recently. Tracert and all still worked, but addresses wouldn't be resolved.
    I suggested manually adding DNS entries to the network card, esat (192.111.39.1) and eircom (159.134.237.6). By default 'ipconfig /all' will probably point DNS to your router, where it's meant to forward requests.


  • #3
    jabaroon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 668 ✭✭✭jabaroon


    Nope, not esat.

    Just after posting my original question, the problem occurred, so I rebooted and the problem happened immediatley after reboot again?....so I rebooted the PC and the ADSL modem and everything has been working fine since?!?...

    Am begining to suspect the modem could be the root cause somehow??

    BTW: You are correct, the PC's dns points to the ADSL modem/router which in turn points to my services providers DNS servers (Netsource)

    Any other thoughts?

    Jab


  • #4
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    Try flushing your DNS when you get the problem, from a promp type "ipconfig /flushdns"

    21/25



  • #5
    OMcGovern
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭OMcGovern


    Have you got both the primary and secondary DNS server IP addresses configured ?


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