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by justemazing

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XP Home will not resolve DNS through a dial-up connection. Connects to remote networks just fine. Can ping ip addresses but will not ping by name. If the name is placed in hosts with ip, the name can be pinged. ipconfig shows proper dns servers, gateway, domain suffix, etc. TCP/IP has been "reset". No luck. Help!

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by sagesmith7

need more info, like are you able to browse? and/or are you behind a proxy server or firewall?...

by justemazing

No firewall. No proxy. Just a straight dial-up to the modem rack. I work for the ISP & we have other XP users. Browsing by IP address is fine but not by name. DNS refuses to resolve unless manually entered into the hosts file. An nslookup brings back a proper nameserver ip address and lists name as 'unknown' and fails to find whatever domain you were looking for. It gets a DHCP address for itself from the modem rack and DNS servers are specified in the XP machine.

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