No DNS lookups ny apps - but nslookup ok

I just split my issue from the old "Connecting but no internet! "
thread.


>Jeff Leiberman
"A temporary fix would be to setup this client machine with the DNS
server pointing to your ISP's DNS servers, instead of pointing to the
router. XP will allow you to keep using DHCP for the IP address and
gateway, while using a static IP address for the DNS server(s). "

The machine is already pointing to the ISP's DNS. That's what shows up
if I do an ipconfig /all. I already tried putting it in manually (the
only recommendation given by Linksys).

I did NOT try putting it in manually and turning off the Windows XP DNS
cache client. I wonder if that could help? (It's on someone else's
computer, about 45 min away, so I can't just try it on a whim...).


"I've seen this problem about 4 times and have yet to have a guaranteed

fix."
Arghhh...

"I fixed one of these with a rather long and tedious solution. I
booted from the XP CDROM and used the "repair" option in the
installation setup...I won't do that again."

Agree with that statement, I'm in the middle of doing one of those on
someone elses computer...

"Use the CD used to install your system or you WILL make a mess.... Be
careful with this one as there are bugs, problems, and it's a bit of a
heavy hammer for a simple problem. "

It's a Dell, which comes with the CD... but who knows if it's exactly
the same version as preloaded.... I would only hope... but I don't plan
on spending days refixing this...


"Another possibility is to dig throught the Windows File Protection
directory at:
c:\winnt\system32\dllcache\
and see if you can find anything that looks like the DNS binary. "

On my XP Pro, a dir *dns* in that directory comes up with nothing...


"Next time, start a new thread."

I just did... :-)

I found this posting from August 2004, which looks promising:

===
From: Veronica - view profile
Date: Tues, Aug 24 2004 5:52 pm
Email: Veronica <Veronica.1bi...@pcbanter.net>
Groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web

Hi all
Through a lot of persistance, I have solved this.
What happens is that windoze looses it's DNS info. I suspect in my case

it was a update or adware removal, but who knows.
With regedit, you will have to manually add a few things. No end of
reinstalls, running of winsockfix etc will do this for you.
In
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/Tcpip/Parameters
You must have
Domain REG_SZ <can be empty>
Hostname REG_SZ <machine name>
NameServer REG_SZ <can be empty>
NV Domain REG_SZ <machine name>
NV Hostname REG_SZ <machine name>
SearchList REG_SZ <empty>
You should also have akey named DNSRegisteredAdapters which was
completely missing on mine.
Under this is a class ID of the curerntly active interface
Then the entries are
DNSServerAddressCount REG_DWORD <n>
DNSServerAddresses REG_BINARY <n ip addresses of DNS servers>
<in my case n=2, and the data was "c2 a8 08 64 c2 a8 04 64"
corresponding to 194.168.8.100 194.168.4.100 but unless you are an NTL
customer, you wont be able to use. Your ISP should give you these
numbers - they are the DNS servers>
DomainName REG_SZ <can be empty>
HostName REG_SZ <machine name>
PrimaryDomainName REG_SZ <can be empty>
I hope this helps anyone that struggle with this. It has taken me about

10 hours to solve this problem.

On my 'working' machine, I don't have these -- maybe
it's just for entering static DNS servers?

DNSServerAddressCount REG_DWORD <n>
DNSServerAddresses REG_BINARY <n ip addresses of DNS servers>

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> On my 'working' machine, I don't have these -- maybe
> it's just for entering static DNS servers?
>
> DNSServerAddressCount REG_DWORD <n>
> DNSServerAddresses REG_BINARY <n ip addresses of DNS servers>

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...s?lnk=sg&hl=en

-aljuhani

Thanks. This link just brings me to microsoft.public.windows.server.dns
- was there a specific message you wanted to point to?

aljuhani wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> > On my 'working' machine, I don't have these -- maybe
> > it's just for entering static DNS servers?
> >
> > DNSServerAddressCount REG_DWORD <n>
> > DNSServerAddresses REG_BINARY <n ip addresses of DNS servers>
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...s?lnk=sg&hl=en
>
> -aljuhani