Re: Networking Issue with Microsoft Windows XP Home

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try a ipconfig/flushdns. then try it. Definately sounds like a name
resolution issue.




"IC ICT SLIddle" <ICICTSLIddle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> A users laptop has come into my office with a particularly unusual
> problem.
>
>
> It cant connect to any website, even though the proxy settings are
> correct. When I attempt to connect to any website I get "The page
> cannot be displayed". I am able to "ping" machines connected to the
> LAN (by name and IP address) and even connect to them via Windows
> sharing. I am also able to "ping" the machine in question from my
> workstation. I can ping websites if i know the IP address but not by
> name(when I do I get the following error "Ping request could not find
> host ???. Please check the name and try again.")... I also done a
> "tracert" but this failed and stopped at the first hop.
>
>
> I have tried numerous things one of which was suggested by my
> colleagues which was to delete the "hosts" file which I have done but
> it has not made any difference.
>
>
> I would say it was a DNS issue that only seems to be affecting this
> machine, but I don't know exactly what the problem is.
>
>
> Any and all suggestions will be helpful.
>


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