Re: DNS issue...........I think??!

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From: ObiWan (obiwan_at_mvps.org)
Date: 01/26/05


Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:21:16 +0100


> About half of the workstation here cant get to the net through their
> browser and the other half can. I checked the event view on the DC's and
> see nothing. I can ping outside of our network on a workstation that is
> having this issue and it works fine. Any suggestions as to what it could
> be? I checked DNS and it seems to be up and running fine, but my
> experience at this is minimal. Anything I should check? What to look
> for? Thanks for all the help!

To check if that's a DNS issue, verify if the "problem" workstations
and the others are using the same DNS, also, on the "problem" WS
try running nslookup and entering some host names (www.google.com
or the like) to see if the DNS resolution is working

Regards

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