Need help. I think it's a DNS problem!

[Jack Frost]

Morning,

I have 2 pc's running from home. For some reason one of them has decided it can no longer connect to the internet? I can access the router settings from that pc, so I know the problem is not the connection to the router. And my other pc connects to the net with no problems through the same router.

I've checked everything I can think of and can't see what the problem could be?

The error is a dns fail?

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Robocrop]

Morning,

I have 2 pc's running from home. For some reason one of them has decided it can no longer connect to the internet? I can access the router settings from that pc, so I know the problem is not the connection to the router. And my other pc connects to the net with no problems through the same router.

I've checked everything I can thing of and can't see what the problem could be?

The error is a dns fail?

Any ideas?

Thanks

If 1 can connect its hardly the DNS. Try disable your firewall m8.

[Jack Frost]

Firewall is disabled.

This is the error I get



Thanks

[Robocrop]

Go to command and do a dns flush

ipconfig/flushdns

Or check the option on archive, browsing offline.


Tried reboot?

[Jack Frost]

Unfortunately that didn't work

[ThePornPusher]

Jack, try this.. Clear your cache/cookies/history...Try going to http://google.com in your browser, if it doesn't load then open up command prompt(start->run->cmd) and try pinging google's ip directly...(ping 74.125.67.100) If you receive a reply chances are your isp is having DNS problems.Verizon FiOS was giving me dns problems for awhile so I ended up changing my DNS settings to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 (depending on your router, it should be simple to change in the router menu)

Hope that helps...

[Jack Frost]

Thanks. I'll give that a try later as I'm away from that PC now! I'll let you know if that works. I was thinking of changing my dns settings to openDNS.

[baddog]

Flush DNS
reboot

[Jack Frost]

Tried all of the above without success

Can't ping google or any net addresses. I can connect to the router from the problem pc, so I can rule out network card or cable.

I can connect to internet through that same router on a different pc. So not a router problem.

I flushed dns, released dns & re entered dns settings.

Basically tried everything I could think of, but no joy at all

[Jack Frost]

Finally fixed it. Just needed to unistalled service pack 3! What a nightare that was.