XP weird behavior with dial up connection

[Matt]

This happened to a friend of mine. He set up his dial up
on XP professional and used it with IE, other browsers and
bunch of other network apps. A few days leter, none of the
apps was was able to use the connection even though he is
connected through his dial up. He can ping and the
connection is active, but no apps work. Any idea what this
might be?

 

[Albatross Singh]

Greetings

Often I have seen that the DNS has to be entered manually with earthlink ISP

Perhaps this helps?
Albatross Singh

 

[Chuck]

This happened to a friend of mine. He set up his dial up
on XP professional and used it with IE, other browsers and
bunch of other network apps. A few days leter, none of the
apps was was able to use the connection even though he is
connected through his dial up. He can ping and the
connection is active, but no apps work. Any idea what this
might be?

Matt,

Please define "no apps work". What specific error is he seeing?

Can he ping with both website name and address?
1) Ping www.yahoo.com.
2) Ping 66.94.230.33.
Report error messages.

Can he make any apps (such as a browser?) access www.yahoo.com as
http://66.94.230.33 ?

And Matt, please don't contribute to the spread and success of email address
mining viruses. Learn to munge your email address properly, to keep yourself a
bit safer when posting to open forums. Protect yourself and the rest of the
internet - never post your address unmunged.
http://www.mailmsg.com/SPAM_munging.htm

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.