Win2000 & IE6 weirdness

Discussion in 'Software' started by dlb, May 9, 2008.

  1. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    I'm working on an older PC (Win2000 SP4, IE6, p4 s478 2.8ghz) and it is doing something a bit odd.... when I launch IE, I get the old "Page cannot be displayed" if I type in "http://www.yahoo.com" for example. But, if I type in Yahoo's IP address 209.131.36.158 the web site will open. Same with if I go to the command prompt and do a 'ping'. If I type in a web site, it says "Unknown host", but if I type in the IP address, it pings just fine.
     
    dlb, May 9, 2008
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  2. dlb

    dlb MajorGeek

    Anybody???
     
    dlb, May 10, 2008
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  3. plodr

    plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

    sounds like DNS isn't working.
    If the person is using a broadband connection, replace the DNS entries with open DNS IPs: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220
     
    plodr, May 10, 2008
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