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webnuts4u2
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      05-18-2004, 11:55 AM
I was trying to help my brother get his comcast cable connection
working.
He's using a comcast wired modem/router, don't remember the brand.

I run winipcfg and I see valid addresses assigned and I'm able to ping
addresses like the comcast dns server and the comcast gateway.

However, pinging a url fails. It gives me a host not found error, so
no joy on browsing.

I called comcast and they said that I needed to run a dns flush but
that since he's running Win98 they/I can't do that because that
command isn't provided under that version. The tech indicated that
the 'internal dns' was somehow corrupted. This is actually the first
time I've heard of Win98 having an internal dns and I haven't been
able to yet find much on this topic on the net. She indicated that I
should contact the original manufacturer or a certified technician.
I'm thinking to myself, for what?

Has anyone ever heard of this kind of problem? Is there a registry
entry that is corrupted? Should he give up and re-install his OS? I
would think there has to be a trivial fix for this kind of thing.

Upgrading to XP isn't an option for him at the moment.

regs,
webnuts
 
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      05-19-2004, 04:56 AM
webnuts4u2-(E-Mail Removed) (webnuts4u2) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> I was trying to help my brother get his comcast cable connection
> working.


Turns out that it apparently was a well known problem with the winsock
configuration. I downloaded a couple of different tools recommended
here and fixed the problem!

regs,
-webnuts
 
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