Re: Connecting but no internet!

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:47:35 +0000, Mark McIntyre
<markmcintyre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Which nslookup mutation?

I was assuming the builtin windows commandline nslookup utility.
Anything else isn't nslookup, its a GUI which does DNS lookups
,probably sharing settings with your browser - ie useless.

That one defaults to the users DNS servers. In theory, that should
not work if the browser doesn't work. Since it doesn't, then probably
something wrong with the browser. The usual goof is to have someting
in the Connections settings.
Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Connection -> LAN settings.
Uncheck EVERYTHING.

I'll bet on a corrupted DNS resolvr binary as I speculated in my
previous rant.

Never come acrosss this - all the dns problems I've ever seen with
home PCs were down to either screwed up tcp settings (in which case no
dns lookup worked) or screwed up browser config (and far too many apps
use IE's settings to drive their use of tcp).

I've only seen the binary problem once. It was a piece of spyware
that replaced the DNS resolver binary so that it would redirect users
to it's idea of a suitable web site. I didn't have internet
connectivity at the customers location so I couldn't lookup the
appropriate removal tool. So I looked at the dates of the various
binaries and found that dnsresolver.dll had been touched. I replaced
it with the one from the DLLCache and everything worked.

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