HostsMan has killed my DNS.

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Hyphen, Jul 13, 2012.

  1. Hyphen

    Hyphen Private First Class

    Installed HM, completely disabled my access to internet. Tried to flush my DNS after uninstalling, it will not flush. Command prompt freezes. How do I restore my DNS after this program has completely screwed me?
     
    Hyphen, Jul 13, 2012
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  2. Hyphen

    Hyphen Private First Class

    Sorry about the brief initial post, was posting from a touchscreen phone and was a little fed up. Basically, I downloaded HostsMan, updated some of the lists, and then went into a command prompt and attempted to flush my DNS cache. Upon hitting enter, nothing happened.

    I tried to flush the DNS cache through CCleaner. Again, it hung and never completed. I couldn't access the internet and Xfire kept telling me it was getting DNS lookup errors. I went ahead and uninstalled HostsMan (which failed to restore my hosts backup, by the way) and I receive the same problem.

    I am back online now, but only because I disabled the DNS Client service in Windows. How can I fix where that program has done me wrong?
     
    Hyphen, Jul 13, 2012
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  3. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Check your hosts file to see if it is modified or if it is back to the default setting which usually has very little information in it at all by default:

    Open current hosts file and edit it so all you have is:

    # This is an example of the hosts file
    127.0.0.1 localhost loopback
    ::1 localhost

    Different os have hosts file in different location, you didnt mention your operating system but you can easily Google it to see where it is located by default. Let me know if that does not work.
     
    Major Attitude, Jul 13, 2012
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  4. Hyphen

    Hyphen Private First Class

    My hosts file is fine, it's my DNS. I have to disable the DNS Client service to even get online, which sucks because my browsing is ridiculously slow and I can't resolve certain domains.

    If I enable it, nothing works. I can't flush my DNS either.
     
    Hyphen, Jul 17, 2012
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  5. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    What does that have to do with HostsMan, a hosts file editor?
     
    Major Attitude, Jul 17, 2012
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  6. Hyphen

    Hyphen Private First Class

    HostsMan has a section in the options that deals a lot with DNS. You can turn on, off, disable, flush the DNS, etc. all from the GUI. I can't tell you any more than that other than the fact that after using HostsMan, my DNS cache can no longer be flushed and the DNS Client service is just basically broken.
     
    Hyphen, Jul 17, 2012
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  7. LordOlives

    LordOlives Private First Class

    I just want to be clear, the host file is a part of the DNS process so when you say it's a DNS problem the host file is first place to check if there are problems.

    What DNS servers are you using?
    > ipconfig /all

    Your DNS queries will be slower with the DNS client turned off because you wont have a dns cache with the service turned off.

    I would try clearing the the dns cache from the command prompt.
    (Start > Run or Start then enter cmd in the text field field)

    > ipconfig /flushdns
    > net stop dnscache (requires elevated permissions)
    > net start dnscache (requires elevated permissions)
     
    LordOlives, Jul 19, 2012
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