Re: "Page Cannot Be Displayed" until IP is renewed.

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It's a long shot, but I wonder if you might have a bad switch losing the arp
association.
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"Caricomaster" <caricomaster(donotspam)@carico.com> wrote in message
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> I'm running a native Windows Server 2003 network with Windows XP Pro
> clients.
> On occasions, I have the weirdest thing happen where clients won't be able
> to access the internet UNLESS they're given an entirely new IP address. I
> would find myself always excluding their currently assigned IP address
> under
> the DHCP scope so that when they renew, they're given a new IP address.
> Once
> that's done, they're able to access the internet right away.
>
> I've tried ipconfig /flushdns, removing/reinstalling the NIC, pinging
> external websites (i.e. www.yahoo.com and get successfully resolved but
> get a
> request timeout each time), I've tried rebooting the PC.. all to no avail.
> The only fix that works is to assign them a new IP altogether. I've grown
> to
> about 30 exclusions under my default scope in DHCP, but I need a
> reason/fix
> for this asap.
> I have two DNS servers both running Windows Server 2003. All servers are
> running on the latest SP and patches/updates as well as the client PC's.
> --
> Alexander Sanabia
> Network Administrator
> http://www.carico.com/
>


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