dan
January 9th 04, 11:07 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>A load of our XP Pro PCs suddenly stopped browsing the
>domain--extremely slow. Other XPs and win98+2000 OK. The
>hosts file with server ip is used in all PCs to speed
>browsing and had worked fine for months. Affected PCs
>suddenly can not ping server by name and an unknown
>external network address is reported as the ping target.
>Other identically configure XPs are ok.
>Lookup to the hosts file seems to have been disabled or
>captured. Current antivirus and spyware scans show no
>problems. Is there a recent security patch in XP that
>disables hosts access?
>Solved the problem for these PCs by reconfiguring DNS on
>server for forwarding and pointing client DNS to the
>server--which should have been the original setup.
>However, there are a lot of sites and clients with the
old
>configuration. Is use of the hosts file now unavailable
in
>XP?
>.
>
>A load of our XP Pro PCs suddenly stopped browsing the
>domain--extremely slow. Other XPs and win98+2000 OK. The
>hosts file with server ip is used in all PCs to speed
>browsing and had worked fine for months. Affected PCs
>suddenly can not ping server by name and an unknown
>external network address is reported as the ping target.
>Other identically configure XPs are ok.
>Lookup to the hosts file seems to have been disabled or
>captured. Current antivirus and spyware scans show no
>problems. Is there a recent security patch in XP that
>disables hosts access?
>Solved the problem for these PCs by reconfiguring DNS on
>server for forwarding and pointing client DNS to the
>server--which should have been the original setup.
>However, there are a lot of sites and clients with the
old
>configuration. Is use of the hosts file now unavailable
in
>XP?
>.
>