Cannot resolve from Hosts

[Guest]

I have an XP home PC that VPNs with cisco software to a corporate network.
There is an application hosted on a server that is located in a third-party
network. I get "Page cannot be displayed" when I type in the URL or go to
the page from favorites. I edited hosts, which is in the default location,
but the name will not resolve. I can ping the server by IP but not by name.
Other XP and 2000 PCs can reach the application after hosts has been edited,
but this one cannot.

I checked the registry key for databasepath and it points to the default
path for hosts.

Internet works fine. I don't have problems resolving other domain names.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[Chuck]

I have an XP home PC that VPNs with cisco software to a corporate network.
There is an application hosted on a server that is located in a third-party
network. I get "Page cannot be displayed" when I type in the URL or go to
the page from favorites. I edited hosts, which is in the default location,
but the name will not resolve. I can ping the server by IP but not by name.
Other XP and 2000 PCs can reach the application after hosts has been edited,
but this one cannot.

I checked the registry key for databasepath and it points to the default
path for hosts.

Internet works fine. I don't have problems resolving other domain names.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

Thanks.

DNS resolution is affected by the LSP / Winsock subsystem.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=318584
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=811259

If XP RTM or Service Pack 1:
1. Backup and delete the following registry keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Winsock2
2. Reboot.
3. Open the network connections folder, right click your network connection, and
click Properties.
4. Click Install | Protocol | Add.
5. Click "Have Disk...", type "\windows\inf" in the box, and click OK.
6. Click "Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)", then click OK.
7. Reboot.

If XP SP2:
1. Start - Run - "cmd".
2. Type "netsh winsock reset catalog" into the command window.

Give LSP-Fix <http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm>, WinsockFix
<http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=257>, or WinsockXPFix
<http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html> a shot.

If no help yet, reset TCP/IP.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=299357

Start - Run - "cmd". Type "netsh int ip reset c:\netsh.txt" into the command
window.

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Chuck
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