Home network, cant browse internet on XP

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Good Morning,

I have a friend with a home network that has 6 machines. There are a couple different OS's running acroos the 6 machines, Win 98, Win XP home, Win XP Pro, and MAC OS X. There is an 8 port Linksys router, routing IP from a cable modem. There are no restrictions set up on the router. The router is running DHCP

The problem is that one of the users ( a Win XP Home machine ) cannot browse the internet. I can ping yahoo.com and get a response, sometimes one of the lines will time out, but still get a response on the line after. I tried releasing the IP information, then renewing. I am getting an IP address, and all the DNS servers on renew. I tried flushing the DNS, tried clearing the cache.

My gut says there is something up with the DNS, but I can't figure it out. All the other machines are setup for DHCP and have no problems at all. Norton is on there , but that doesn't completely rule out viri

Any Thoughts???
 
if you are running norton on xp have you turned off the xp
firewall if not this gives out dns faliour messages. go to
the network card settings and go to networking and turn
off the xp firewall.
try this?




-----Original Message-----
Good Morning,

I have a friend with a home network that has 6 machines.
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There are a couple different OS's running acroos the 6
machines, Win 98, Win XP home, Win XP Pro, and MAC OS X.
There is an 8 port Linksys router, routing IP from a cable
modem. There are no restrictions set up on the router. The
router is running DHCP.
The problem is that one of the users ( a Win XP Home
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machine ) cannot browse the internet. I can ping yahoo.com
and get a response, sometimes one of the lines will time
out, but still get a response on the line after. I tried
releasing the IP information, then renewing. I am getting
an IP address, and all the DNS servers on renew. I tried
flushing the DNS, tried clearing the cache.
My gut says there is something up with the DNS, but I
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can't figure it out. All the other machines are setup for
DHCP and have no problems at all. Norton is on there , but
that doesn't completely rule out virii
 
What have you tried, not a mind reader.

When you post or reply, add the previous pertinent post so we know what is
going on.

Rick
 
My buddy is still having trouble. He currently using mozilla without problems. IE will not browse. he has an 8 port link sys router, using Columbus, OH based Insight RR. I am able to receive IP on each 98 and xp machine. I tried flushing the DNS. Tried clearing all cache locations, Had them upgrade to Norton AV 2004 but cannot run the Liveupdate ( i have a version on my ( not aflicted ) machine and it updates fine on his network ). Checked the Hosts file on the Win 98 and win xp machines...they are all clean. Tried rebooting router, modem several times. Latest firmware is updated on router. Mac is not affected ( figures ). Mozilla works fine for browsing on all affected machines.

Still searching for suggestions.....any input?
 
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