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ytyourclothes
I'm having a strange problem on a winXPpro (everything auto-up-to-date)
box that looks like this:
In IE, I go to gmail and can read my messages fine -- thus windows is
obviously able to resolve gmail.google.com. It can also resolve most
other things I throw at it (I tried a couple things at random). HOWEVER
there is a link to some pictures that someone sent me in an email and
when I click on that link in gmail IE spawns a new window with an error
message "cannot find server or dns error".
I didn't think much of that: mistyped URL or something, I figured. so I
nslookup'ed the host (via cygwin) and it comes up just fine with an ip
address. I play with those four digits that nslookup handed me and they
respond just fine to a 'ping'. I nothing interesting in the tracert,
and when I hand those digits to wget, I get a web-page with all the
things I expected. HOWEVER going back to IE and entering
"http://xx.xx.xx.xx" with only simply these digits yields the same
result: cannot server or dns error.
By this time I'm baffled. I go to "my computer | my network places |
show network connections", click on my network connection (ethernet to
a home broadband router to a cable setup) rightclick and "repair this
connection". It does a number of things that flash past me too fast to
keep track of and then stops at "the following action could not be
completed: registering with DNS".
Huh - DNS. So now I'm baffled -- what is there to register?
I was using the ip address of my network provider's nameserver, so I
wend to TCP properties and changed that to the address of my router
(which has the address of my provider's nameserver as well, so it's
just an extra hop) reboot, restart go through the motion and the exact
same things as above happen again.
I'd like to note that there are three machines on this router, two are
winXPpro and one is Slackware Linux and this one win-box is the only
one that has this trouble -- the other windows box can go to that
website just fine and so can the linux box -- and so I figure there's
something odd happening with my windows setup -- but for the life of me
I can't tell just what i.e. is doing. If I can tracert through to both
the dns server and the web-server then what could IE means when it says
"cannot find server or dns error"?
Thanks for any ideas in advance...
cordially
Y.T.
box that looks like this:
In IE, I go to gmail and can read my messages fine -- thus windows is
obviously able to resolve gmail.google.com. It can also resolve most
other things I throw at it (I tried a couple things at random). HOWEVER
there is a link to some pictures that someone sent me in an email and
when I click on that link in gmail IE spawns a new window with an error
message "cannot find server or dns error".
I didn't think much of that: mistyped URL or something, I figured. so I
nslookup'ed the host (via cygwin) and it comes up just fine with an ip
address. I play with those four digits that nslookup handed me and they
respond just fine to a 'ping'. I nothing interesting in the tracert,
and when I hand those digits to wget, I get a web-page with all the
things I expected. HOWEVER going back to IE and entering
"http://xx.xx.xx.xx" with only simply these digits yields the same
result: cannot server or dns error.
By this time I'm baffled. I go to "my computer | my network places |
show network connections", click on my network connection (ethernet to
a home broadband router to a cable setup) rightclick and "repair this
connection". It does a number of things that flash past me too fast to
keep track of and then stops at "the following action could not be
completed: registering with DNS".
Huh - DNS. So now I'm baffled -- what is there to register?
I was using the ip address of my network provider's nameserver, so I
wend to TCP properties and changed that to the address of my router
(which has the address of my provider's nameserver as well, so it's
just an extra hop) reboot, restart go through the motion and the exact
same things as above happen again.
I'd like to note that there are three machines on this router, two are
winXPpro and one is Slackware Linux and this one win-box is the only
one that has this trouble -- the other windows box can go to that
website just fine and so can the linux box -- and so I figure there's
something odd happening with my windows setup -- but for the life of me
I can't tell just what i.e. is doing. If I can tracert through to both
the dns server and the web-server then what could IE means when it says
"cannot find server or dns error"?
Thanks for any ideas in advance...
cordially
Y.T.