Posted on 05/04/2007 11:18:42 AM PDT by pandemoniumreigns
Tech help needed, browsers will not open any site but google...
I don't think I do.. but when I pinged the DNS server on monday I got 4 sent, 4 received...
Let me see what happens...
If you have Obtain DNS server address automatically, then change it to Use the following DNS server addresses: and then enter 68.2.16.30 and 68.6.16.30. Click OK. Click OK again.
Try your browser again or try pinging www.freerepublic.com again.
record name-------------1.0.0.127 in-addr.arpa
And in the box below that,
local host
host record ------------127.0.0.1
After changing the dns addresses I could ping FR from the prompt and get 4 packets sent and received w/ none lost, but I still cannot get a browser to open it...
You still need to try the DNS sever thing.
Now that you changed your DNS server setting, try rebooting.
OK, I rebooted with the dns server and alternate that you suggested...
Same game... I can ping FR from the com prompt with good results but still cannot open FR with any browser...
Now I never did the ipconfig/flushdns...
You said, "any browser". Does that mean you've tested this with Firefox or some other browser?
Do you know if you have automatic updates enabled? If you do, there’s a chance that good ol’ MSFT broke something. You can try doing a roll back. From the Start menu, go to Programs, then Accessories, then System Tools, then choose System Restore. Choose a system checkpoint from a day when the box was a happy camper and see what happens.
You could also try installing Firefox. Since it won’t have been around when whatever the badness was happened, it may not be affected. (You’d be installing it over the top of whatever it is that screwing things up.)
Yeah, I had already tried both opera and IE and this morning I downloaded and installed a fresh copy of firefox...
Same deal...google loads and searches just fine but the links wont load...I hit maps just to see...works perfect...
I backed it up 2 weeks on monday...It picked up on a printer that I had added one week and 5 days earlier.
No effect on the browser probs...
Are you using any sort of 3rd party firewalls, web filters, or any sort of proxy services?
Nope, just the XP firewall and I have moved it to the (your doomed if you leave it here) setting...
How are you connected to the Internet? Do you go through a cable modem? Do you have a router in between the computer and the cable modem? What’s your setup?
How do you check email? Are you using web-based mail or a mail client like Outlook Express?
I have a two computer home network... This, the host computer(my daughters) is directly connected to a cable modem and my computer is connected to hers with a cat 5 ethernet cable via linksys card in each machine...
Both machines say that the connection is good at 100Mbps.
So, do you have two network cards in your daughter's machine? You've got her computer connected to the cable modem and ALSO to your computer. So, it sounds like it.
That's not an optimum setup. One of the reasons is problems as you've described here. You should be using a little router that you can pick up for between $35 and $50.
If you connect your PC directly to the cable modem and see if that works, that would tell us alot about what the problem may be.
Is it possible that someting like net nanny was activated for the account you use on your machine?
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