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DNS Issue when using wireless

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by shendrickson

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I have a user who logs into her laptop, connects via wireless and then opens a web browser and tries to access a web page via name. This fails. If you go to a command line and do an nslookup and paste the ip address into the browser it succeeeds and you are then able to access all web pages via name. Any ideas of what the cause may be and how to resolve this issue?

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by david.wallis

yep you need to setup DNS on her laptop...

you can manually enter a DNS in the properties of her wireless network connection

by cabarnacus

Under wireless properties highlight internet protocol (TCP/IP) and properties again and in the general tab make sure automatically obatain DNS is selected.

That is if its a windows system.

Depends on the setup of your wireless network tho. If most people just connect and it works then that may be the issue. But maybe you have your own specific DNS settings to which entering them manually would be the answer.

by david.wallis

seeing as DNS is set to automatic by default in windows that there was no dns server availabe, thereby setting a manual one would resolve the issue :-)

you can set the DNS up as the router address ie 192.168.0.1 :) or go on google to find a decent one :)

by cabarnacus

Didn't know you could set up the router address as a DNS server. Cool.

Learn something new every day.

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