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by mich_1

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Do not know what happened yesterday, but the computer will now connect to the internet succesfully and log on (to Tiscali.co.uk) but will not load any pages.

Error message is "cannot locate server DNS error".

I assume that the problem is within Network, TCP/IP settings. Nothing is shown under DNS configuration. What should the entries show?

Running Windows 98 second edition, IE 5.5, 56K modem.

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by adeal

Try just pinging an IP address that you know. If that's the succesfull, then try to ping a web site, like Yahoo.com. If it doesn't work, then the problem is with you service provider's DNS. There is nothing you can do on your end to fix it.

by cmartinco

You can also try deleting the temporary Internet files and the cookies from Internet options. Sometimes a corrupted file might cause that kind of behavior in IE.

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