Jump to content

Welcome to Geeks to Go - Register now for FREE

Need help with your computer or device? Want to learn new tech skills? You're in the right place!
Geeks to Go is a friendly community of tech experts who can solve any problem you have. Just create a free account and post your question. Our volunteers will reply quickly and guide you through the steps. Don't let tech troubles stop you. Join Geeks to Go now and get the support you need!

How it Works Create Account
Photo

XP DNS problems


  • Please log in to reply

#1
neubanks

neubanks

    New Member

  • Member
  • Pip
  • 4 posts
Hello

We are experiencing unknown DNS? issues affecting only XP machines on our network. Name lookups from the command prompt succeed despite the fact that web browsers and pings are failing when hostnames are specified. The issue often resolves itself within a 5-30 minutes but will remerge later without any visible pattern/reason.

Our 2000 and 98 machines are fine. These problem began a week ago here though contact with other admins in our (school) network show a few people have been experiencing this problem for months.

Any ideas or recent malware affecting DNS in XP boxes only?

much thanks
  • 0

Advertisements


#2
gerryf

gerryf

    Retired Staff

  • Retired Staff
  • 11,365 posts
no, but since you have a mixed network, and somethings are working and some not, I need to know more about the network topology

AD? Windows nt, 2000 or 2003 server? WINS active? Server have static or dhcp IPs?

In a mixed network, well, most networks, it's always a good idea to statically assign server IPs rather than dhcp....even if the server is the dhcp server.
  • 0

#3
dsenette

dsenette

    Je suis Napoléon!

  • Community Leader
  • 26,047 posts
  • MVP
especially if the server is the dhcp server
  • 0






Similar Topics

0 user(s) are reading this topic

0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users

As Featured On:

Microsoft Yahoo BBC MSN PC Magazine Washington Post HP