Can find IP Address, but not Name.. help

[ken]

Hello!
I am having a serious problem right now with my server.. It is connected to
the internet, and at one time worked perfectly, but now what is happening is
that everytime I type in a web address (yahoo.com) it doesnt find the page,
however it can read the ip numbers without a problem.

please help!
Ken

 

[Charles McMillan]

From a command prompt run the following two commands:
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /registerdns

Not knowing how your network gets it's name resolution
this is the best I can do. If you have a local DNS I
assume that it forwards non-local request to your ISPs DNS
server, or at least it did at one time. Check to ensure
that your local DNS is working properly and that your
server is pointing to the DNS's IP address.

 

[Charles McMillan]

So your server is the DC, DNS and Web server all in one.
You can't point the server to itself for the Default
gateway. How do you reach the Internet? Has an ISP
provided you with a connection? If so they will also
provide a Default Gateway. With the server pointing to
itself it has no way of sending packets outside of it's
own network.

The server does need to point to itself for DNS and your
DNS needs to forward to your ISPs DNS server.

Did you do the flushdns and registerdns?
Can you email me a screen shot of your ipconfig /all?

What has changed from the time your system worked and now
that it doesn't?