Shared Connection Difficulty, DNS?

[William]

I'm looking for some help.
I have a home network of which is having issues with
the shared internet connection. It stopped working about
4 weeks ago. A nice gentleman in this community pointed
me in the correct direction, yet now I am looking for a
fix. I have a host computer and 2 client computers.
The client can ping 66.94.231.98 (yahoo)
successfully.The client can not ping http://www.yahoo.com
sucessfully until I force the host computer to ping
http://www.yahoo.com. Once I force the host to ping the
name, the client works great!.
When a new dial up connection is established on the
host, the above pinging proceedure must be repeated for
the shared connection to work.
One more thing, the host is running XP Home upgraded
from Win98. The client is XP home.
I still have much to learn about networks, But I
believe the DNS to be the cause?
Can anyone out there give me direction to a solution.

Appreciate the time,
William

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Possibly:

1. MTU issue - See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319661; or

2. Try manually configuring the client:

On the host computer connect to the Internet, open a command prompt and type
ipconfig /all ENTER. Write down the IP address of the DNS server listed on
your Internet connection. On the client machine go to Network and Dialup
connections/Network connections, double click on the Local Area Connection
and click Properties. Highlight TCP/IP and click the properties button.
Click Use the following IP address and Use the following DNS server address
and enter the following information:

IP address = 192.168.0.2
Subnet mask = 255.255.255.0
Gateway = 192.168.0.1

DNS server = IP address you wrote down previously

Reboot - if this doesn't work, change the setting back to obtain address and
DNS automatically.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Wiliam]

Hello Doug,
Your my hero! I manually configured the client as
directed and all is well. It's always simple once you
understand. Thank you for teaching me something new.

William

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Thanks for the feedback. Sometimes having the client directly query the DNS
server just plain works better. Caveat: Occasionally your ISP may change
its DNS server address - the host will get this automatically, but your
manually configured client will not. So it would be a good idea to run
ipconfig /all on the host periodically.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP