Re: XP won't load web pages.


"gazzafield" <rufty_tufty_hoolythug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:pan.2005.11.30.10.56.18.609482@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:46:53 +0000, Krusty wrote:
>
> > gazzafield wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:26:44 +0000, Krusty wrote:
> >>
> >> > gazzafield wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Are you going through a router or a modem? Who's your ISP?
> >> >
> >> > Both - ADSL2MUE modem & WRT54GS router. The ISP's Bulldog. It all
> >> > works fine when I boot back to the Win2k drive so it seems unlikely
> >> > the network hardware/ISP are the culprits.
> >>
> >>
> >> I noticed you said this is first time you've played with XP. Just
> >> out of interest, what did you use before?
> >
> > Win2k (which I'm back in now)
> >
> >> I wasn't suggesting the ISP or hardware, I've just found from personal
> >> experience that some need different setups depending on how you
> >> connect and some ISPs are just ***. AOL being one. Do you know the
> >> IPs of Bulldogs DNS routers?
> >
> > Yep - 83.146.21.5 & 6. I've got them in the network settings (I don't
> > use DHCP - but I did try & it still didn't work).
>
>
>
> I haven't used XP Pro 64. I'm just wondering if it has DNS issues. If I
> think of anything else I'll pop back in.

Krusty,

Let's go back to the basics (please don't think that I'm patronising in
any way here). Am I right in thinking that you are connected to an ADSL
router using Ethernet? If not are you using wireless or a USB connection? If
it is Ethernet, then you will have an IP address and subnet mask - you say
that you are not using DHCP, so you must have entered the address and mask
manually as well as the DNS settings. Also you will have entered the default
router (the IP address of the routers Ethernet port.

If all of these are correct, we'll do a little ping / tracert.

Open a command window from the XP start menu / run / type cmd.

Now ping the PC's IP address. Does it work?
Next ping the default router's address. Does it work?
If the above all work, try pinging the DNS servers. Do they respond?

Now look at name resolving.

>From the same command window above, type nslookup www.cisco.com do you get a
response?

If all the above work, then we are looking at something above the IP
connectivity layer and we'll look at that later.

J.


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