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Gary Smith
We have been trying to help a friend who's home network seems to be
flaky. He has three Windows XP boxes connected to a Linksys wireless
G router (one hard wired) and 1 Windows 98. He can surf everything on
the Windows 98 box. On two of the XP boxes (one wired, one wireless)
he can access cnn.com, yahoo.com and many other sites but cannot
access microsoft.com, passport.com and many other microsoft related
sites. His routing table is filled with many items with a metric of
20. The default gateway is the router.
Using hijack this we found that he had an entry for two DNS servers
that were never assigned. We cleaned is up, ran spybot adaware, etc
to clean it up. Norton AV has found nothing.
The router is connected to an Efficient 5260 DSL modem.
His laptop, which is almost never there, can surf the web when it is
there just fine. No problems. We downloaded SP2 from an alternate
location and installed it on one of the troublesome boxed hoping that
it might fix the problem but it did not. We have also verified the
hosts file to ensure that there was no spoofed routing and there
wasn't.
Everything appears good but we still cannot get to a bunch of sites.
If we try to ping it does resolve to the IP address so we know that
DNS is working. But it times out. Tracerouting shows it going over a
couple hops all the way to microsoft (in some cases).
At first I though it was IE so I installed FireFox. I still can't get
to the Microsoft site.
Any ideas?
Gary Smith
flaky. He has three Windows XP boxes connected to a Linksys wireless
G router (one hard wired) and 1 Windows 98. He can surf everything on
the Windows 98 box. On two of the XP boxes (one wired, one wireless)
he can access cnn.com, yahoo.com and many other sites but cannot
access microsoft.com, passport.com and many other microsoft related
sites. His routing table is filled with many items with a metric of
20. The default gateway is the router.
Using hijack this we found that he had an entry for two DNS servers
that were never assigned. We cleaned is up, ran spybot adaware, etc
to clean it up. Norton AV has found nothing.
The router is connected to an Efficient 5260 DSL modem.
His laptop, which is almost never there, can surf the web when it is
there just fine. No problems. We downloaded SP2 from an alternate
location and installed it on one of the troublesome boxed hoping that
it might fix the problem but it did not. We have also verified the
hosts file to ensure that there was no spoofed routing and there
wasn't.
Everything appears good but we still cannot get to a bunch of sites.
If we try to ping it does resolve to the IP address so we know that
DNS is working. But it times out. Tracerouting shows it going over a
couple hops all the way to microsoft (in some cases).
At first I though it was IE so I installed FireFox. I still can't get
to the Microsoft site.
Any ideas?
Gary Smith