DNS Issues with Vista

[Patrick Dickey]

Hi everyone,

I'm having some strange DNS issues with my Vista computer. First let me
explain my layout a bit. Then I'll explain the issues that I'm having.

I have a DSL Modem from Qwest, which provides me with a NAT IP address.
Connected to it, is a Linksys Router, which provides the NAT for my network.
I have four computers on my network. One is a desktop running XP Pro (with
TreeWalk DNS installed). One is a laptop with XP Media Center. One is my
web server with MEPIS Linux. and my Vista computer which is a desktop as
well.

The DNS servers that I have listed are my router (which gets it's DNS
Information from Qwest) and then the computer with TreeWalk installed.
(I've tried this in both orders, and nothing's different).

Now my problem. On my Vista computer, I can't access
http://www.sharebuilder.com (or any variation of the name),
http://www.apache.org (or any variation of the name) and other sites.
However, on all of my other computers, I can access those sites without any
problems whatsoever. I should stress that it's limited to certain sites.
Most of the sites that I go to work fine. Regardless of whether I'm using
Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer.

I've tried switching the order of my DNS Servers, rebooting everything,
repairing the connections. Funny thing with the sharebuilder site is, I can
ping one of it's sub-domains, but not the www.sharebuilder.com domain
itself. However, I still can't actually get to the subdomain (even using
it's IP address). And, if I put the IP address in for the domain, it
doesn't go there.

I'm completely at a loss here, and don't want to waste my tech support
service on this, if I can avoid it. So, any help will be greatly
appreciated.

Have a great week everyone
Patrick.

 

[Kerry Brown]

At a command prompt use the nslookup command to see if the sites are being
resolved and what name server is resolving them. If nslookup works then the
problem isn't DNS but something else blocking the sites. You should see
something like the following.

C:\Users\kdbrown>nslookup www.sharebuilder.com
Server: sbs-server.kdbsystems.local
Address: 192.168.0.254:53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.sharebuilder.com
Address: 216.34.93.145

 

[Vista User]

Hi everyone,

I'm having some strange DNS issues with my Vista computer. First let
me explain my layout a bit. Then I'll explain the issues that I'm having.

I have a DSL Modem from Qwest, which provides me with a NAT IP address.
Connected to it, is a Linksys Router, which provides the NAT for my
network. I have four computers on my network. One is a desktop running XP
Pro (with TreeWalk DNS installed). One is a laptop with XP Media Center.
One is my web server with MEPIS Linux. and my Vista computer which is a
desktop as well.

The DNS servers that I have listed are my router (which gets it's DNS
Information from Qwest) and then the computer with TreeWalk installed.
(I've tried this in both orders, and nothing's different).

Now my problem. On my Vista computer, I can't access
http://www.sharebuilder.com (or any variation of the name),
http://www.apache.org (or any variation of the name) and other sites.
However, on all of my other computers, I can access those sites without
any problems whatsoever. I should stress that it's limited to certain
sites. Most of the sites that I go to work fine. Regardless of whether
I'm using Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer.

I've tried switching the order of my DNS Servers, rebooting everything,
repairing the connections. Funny thing with the sharebuilder site is, I
can ping one of it's sub-domains, but not the www.sharebuilder.com domain
itself. However, I still can't actually get to the subdomain (even using
it's IP address). And, if I put the IP address in for the domain, it
doesn't go there.

I'm completely at a loss here, and don't want to waste my tech support
service on this, if I can avoid it. So, any help will be greatly
appreciated.

Have a great week everyone
Patrick.

Go into your ip settings and turn off IPV6
IPV4 should be on.
Click on the IPV4 properties and advance settings
Turn off use LMHOST.
Then give it a try.

Post back and give results.