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June 1, 2000 at 10:13 AM
nosrednaanit

NT 4 Wkstn not using DNS

by nosrednaanit . Updated 26 years ago

I have an NT Workstation (laptop) that made a trip to Germany for a trade show and when it came back, DNS was no longer working (specifically, I get a “bad IP address” when trying to ping names, and a “server not found or DNS error” message from IE. I’ve verified via IPCONFIG /all (and the registry) that the correct DNS servers are listed, and this workstation is the only one on our network with this problem. I have put individual listings in a hosts file, and it still gives me a “bad IP address” when trying to ping names (IP addresses work fine). I have used both static and DHCP IP settings. I uninstalled IP, rebooted and then reinstalled IP and re-service packed it (sp6a) – twice. I have even unbound Netbios, just to see what would happen (nothing). My next troubleshooting step was to use Etherpeek to do a packet analysis, and noticed that _no_ DNS packets are being sent from the workstation at all. Not even during start up, pinging, or attempting to access the web. Any ideaof why this workstat

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