DNS Names Will Not Resolve

One thing you might have tried was using winipcfg, to make sure your machine was grabbing the IP addresses to your ISP's name servers. Whenever you get a DNS error, most of the time it has the wrong addresses to the DNS servers, or dont grab them atall. DHCP can be kind of flaky at times, such as my UNIX machine, it always grabs a x.x.x.0 or x.x.x.253 IP address from my ISP's DHCP server, it will never grab anything else and I have yet to figure out why because WinME always gets a more 'normal' IP address from them. When you tried to open websites by IP, it probably didn't work because most websites nowadays have multilpe machines hosting them, and sometimes have several IP's associated with that name, and some IP's resolve to a server that host's multiple websites, which could result in errors trying to hit that IP directly. If you see this again in the future, run winipcfg from the Run command, or try uninstalling your modem/NIC and all protocols bound to it, and reinstall them, this usually corrects the problem, as I've never had to edit the registry to solve this. I hope this helps you see what might have been wrong without confusing you more, as I'm not a teacher, I'm just a tech :)

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http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/4/70.ASP
http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/win98/troubles.asp#i
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q162/8/11.asp

I hope this helps, ifyou can recall setting from the previous machine. I have also had a similar problem when using X-teq (registry "tunning" tool).
Regards,
Radu

I recently had some similar problems when the workstation had Microsoft Proxy Client installed. Uninstall/reinstall of that app cleared things up.

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