Can't browse the internet

[Rupert]

I have a machine with a static IP address that can't
browse the internet. I can ping from the machine out to
the DNS servers and on to other public webservers but when
I try to browse with IE 6 I get a DNS error. The same
static IP address works perfectly on another machine.
Any suggestions?
Rupert.

 

[Marina Roos]

Is this machine on a network? What kind of a network?

Marina

 

[Guest]

It's on a 100mbps Ethernet peer to peer LAN.

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Is this machine on a network? What kind of a network?

Marina




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[Marina Roos]

And how are you connecting to the internet?

Marina

 

[Rupert]

The connection is through a firewall (the gateway) and
router. I do not think this is the problem, because I
connected another machine to the same network point using
an identical static IP address and it worked perfectly.

 

[Chuck]

I have a machine with a static IP address that can't
browse the internet. I can ping from the machine out to
the DNS servers and on to other public webservers but when
I try to browse with IE 6 I get a DNS error. The same
static IP address works perfectly on another machine.
Any suggestions?
Rupert.

If you use a static ip address on a computer, you have to enter the
DNS settings on that computer also. Compare the DNS settings on the
two computers - the one that works and the one that doesn't. Are they
identical?

Are you pinging the same websites that you try to access from IE? By
name in both cases?


Chuck
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Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.

 

[Michael Johnston [MSFT]]

This could be related to the qhosts trojan. http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100719

Thank you,
Mike Johnston
Microsoft Network Support
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