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DIAL UP PROBLEM

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by techjunkie

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Yes I know, dial-up, but lets move on..... I need to connect my laptop in this way.

So I dial-up and get the notification of being connected, but when I try to browse the web I get the message "server cannot be found" - using both IE and FFox. Email doesn't connect either. I've tried pinging 127.0.0.1 and get a response - but when I ping a website i.e. www.bbc.co.uk no success. I think I need to flush the DNS cache or release some other type of setting, but don't know how to do this, can anybody help please?

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by liame

Once connected can you ping a web address by IP? Your ISP's dns address is a good one to test.

If you can this points to DNS being incorrectly configured. This connection should be set to get its dns servers automatically (along with all the other IP settings) regardless of other connections settings.

Connect and do a 'ipconfig /all' and post the results for the dial up connection and we'll take it from there.

by house

It depends on the OS. If you are connected, and have verified the dns settings in your ppp properties. Please let us know what OS you are running.

I'm lazy today, so rather than spending an hour explaining the various fixes, try this

http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

I have never used it, and I have no idea whether it is packaged with spyware or not. Post the name of your OS, and I can help you with manual registry manipulation.

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