Win XP Home DNS Resolution

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Dan

I have a netwrok set up in my home with high speed
internet acces(cable modem)and a router. There are 2
machines on the network. One running Win2K and the other
running WinXP Home Ed. Everything thing was configured by
me and worked fine with my router providing DHCP for both
machines for months. All of a sudden, the XP box will not
resolve DNS and was not getting an IP address from the
router. So I turned off DHCP on the router and gave both
machines static 192.168.x.x addresses. Again, the Win2K
box can see everything on my network and get out to the
internet but the XP box still will not resolve DNS. I can
still ping the Win2K box and the router over the network
from the XP machine, no problem. I can also ping external
IP addresses at work from the XP box, so I know it's
getting out. I verified that the network is working, my
Win2K machine is configured the same as the XP machine and
it works with static or DHCP addressing. XP just won't
resolve DNS. Any ideas?? Thanks.

-Dan
 
I believe DNS settings are obtained as part of the DHCP network discovery
session. You'll have to input them on static IP addressed machines manually.
Hopefully you should be able to retrieve these values from your router if
you access its config window.
 
One problem we've seen with dns on xp seems to be that xp will use the dns
servers in reverse order of win 2k - ie: win2k will use the 1st dns server
first and the 2nd one 2nd, however xp will use the 2nd one first and the 1st
one 2nd - check that ALL of your listed dns servers are in fact functoinal.
 
Dan,

I have this same exact problem. Did you ever resolve your problem?

Everything had been working fine until I had a NIC failure. I have replaced the NIC twice from different vendors with the same results. DHCP not does not resolve but, other computers plugged into the same port work fine. If I hard code the IP config information, I can ping default gateway and hosts on the internet including my ISP's DNS. But, DNS does not relove either.

NSLOOKUP fails with;
*** Can't find server name for address x.x.x.x: No response from server
*** Default servers are not available
Server: UnKnown
Address: x.x.x.x

*** UnKnown can't find www.x.com: No response from server

I have even reinstalled XP and reset TCP/IP w/ "netsh int ip". I still have the same problem, DHCP & DNS fail.

Scott
 
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