Re: Primary DNS Suffix is blank
From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/07/05
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Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 00:18:04 -0500
In news:FD62C8CE-7088-4539-8C26-E0B45BCA0F79@microsoft.com,
billmartin44 <billmartin44@discussions.microsoft.com> made a post then I
commented below
:: Ace, I found your message this morning [I couldn't even access the
:: Discussion Group site yesterday] and did as you suggested:
::: Try and manually set to manually set the DNS addresses in your
::: network card's IP properties. Then select these two servers:
::: 216.99.233.253
::: 4.2.2.2
::
:: I hope I made those entries in the proper place. I used:
:: Start-->Settings-->Network and Dialup Connections-->Local Area
:: Connection
:: -->Properties-->General Tab-->Internet Protocol [TCP/IP]-->Properties
:: -->Use the following DNS Server addresses:
:: Preferred DNS Server [I put in 216.99.233.253]
:: Alternate DNS Server [I put in 4.2.2.2]
::
:::: IS THAT THE PROCESS BY WHICH I SHOULD HAVE ENTERED THOSE
:::: ADDRESSES??<< Or did I put them in the wrong place?
That is the correct place. You did good!
::
:: Just for drill, after entering them as DNS Server addresses, I put
:: each of those addresses in my browser...but got a reply that it
:: couldn't find either one of them.
:: Is that normal? They did ping OK though. And using ipconfig/all,
:: it showed that the two new addresses were in place.
:: -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:: Then I accessed 4 web sites that I regularly use. The performance
::: definitely< was improved from what I've been experiencing the past
::: few days.
:: It's not as fast as it was three weeks ago, but >certainly< better
:: than it's been the past couple of weeks.
::
:: Ace, Thank You for that accomplishment !
You are welcome. We're getting closer here...
::
:: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:: One thing still puzzles me. I mentioned, a couple days ago, that I
:: had somehow gotten access to a configuration file in my computer
:: titled:
:: DNS Suffix Search List, and [out of sheer frustration before I met
:: you] changed that suffix from attbi.com to comcast.net. Since
:: Comcast had quit forwarding email that was addressed to attbi, I
:: thought maybe the DNS suffix wasn't supported any longer either.
::
:: Maybe I should change that back to attbi.com.
:: How do I get to that Configuration file?
No, it's ok, since you are not using or in an Active Directory domain
environment, I would just leave it as comcast.net. That name is used to
suffix a search if you were to say, ping a machine by its first name, such
as machine1, the system will suffix comcast.net against it and will ping
machine1.comcast.net. That's what the search suffix is for. So it ain't a
big deal.
I hope this helped you out Bill...
Ace
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