allan grossman [ms-mvp]
June 11th 03, 01:35 PM
Hi, Lex -
You're on the right track - I think the problem is still
DNS, though.
The first thing I'd do just for grins is drop the
firewall. I don't have any reason to believe it's
causing the problem but when you troubleshoot just about
anything you reduce it to its most basic configuration
first. It won't hurt and might possibly help.
Next, try disabling the DNS Client service on the
machine. It's not required unless you're participating
in a Win2k or later domain and although I've never heard
of it interfering with a dialup connection anything's
possible.
The DNS Client service will remove a DNS server from a
list of available servers if they don't respond in what
Windows considers to be a timely manner - and if this
happens enough times you're left with no DNS servers as
far as Windows XP is concerned. It's a pretty good
feature if you've got a DNS server on a LAN so Windows
will automagically skip to the next available DNS server
but if there are problems connunicating with all of them
you might see the problem you mention. I've seen it
lotsa times on machines with broadband connections but
never on a dialup machine. It's worth a shot, though.
If it fixes the problem you can leave the DNS Client
service disabled, Lex.
Good luck -
>-----Original Message-----
>G'Day There,
>I,m trying to get windows XP home computer to browse the
>net.
>I can create a dial up connection with the wizard,
>I can dial up and get authenticated.
>But the browser is unable to find any web servers.
>I can succesfully ping the ip address of web or mail or
>dns servers on the internnet but not their FQDN .
>The computer is being allocated two DNS server addresses
>by the authenticating web server which I can ping.
>Even if I staticlly assign the addresses of the DNS
>servers instead of dynamic it still does not work.
>
>I've tried to uninstall and reinstall networking
>components but apparently tcpip is not uninstallable ?
>The tick has been taken out of the firewall option.
>Still no joy.
>
>Can anyone tell me what's going on and point me in the
>right direction ?
>
>Thanks
>
>Lex
>
>
>.
>
You're on the right track - I think the problem is still
DNS, though.
The first thing I'd do just for grins is drop the
firewall. I don't have any reason to believe it's
causing the problem but when you troubleshoot just about
anything you reduce it to its most basic configuration
first. It won't hurt and might possibly help.
Next, try disabling the DNS Client service on the
machine. It's not required unless you're participating
in a Win2k or later domain and although I've never heard
of it interfering with a dialup connection anything's
possible.
The DNS Client service will remove a DNS server from a
list of available servers if they don't respond in what
Windows considers to be a timely manner - and if this
happens enough times you're left with no DNS servers as
far as Windows XP is concerned. It's a pretty good
feature if you've got a DNS server on a LAN so Windows
will automagically skip to the next available DNS server
but if there are problems connunicating with all of them
you might see the problem you mention. I've seen it
lotsa times on machines with broadband connections but
never on a dialup machine. It's worth a shot, though.
If it fixes the problem you can leave the DNS Client
service disabled, Lex.
Good luck -
>-----Original Message-----
>G'Day There,
>I,m trying to get windows XP home computer to browse the
>net.
>I can create a dial up connection with the wizard,
>I can dial up and get authenticated.
>But the browser is unable to find any web servers.
>I can succesfully ping the ip address of web or mail or
>dns servers on the internnet but not their FQDN .
>The computer is being allocated two DNS server addresses
>by the authenticating web server which I can ping.
>Even if I staticlly assign the addresses of the DNS
>servers instead of dynamic it still does not work.
>
>I've tried to uninstall and reinstall networking
>components but apparently tcpip is not uninstallable ?
>The tick has been taken out of the firewall option.
>Still no joy.
>
>Can anyone tell me what's going on and point me in the
>right direction ?
>
>Thanks
>
>Lex
>
>
>.
>