I have Windows XP SP1 on both of my systems and I use a router to connect them to the net.
One system works just fine and it handles all DNS requests without a problem, but my newer system is acting up fiercely.
When I use netscape or MSIE to browse web pages it occasionally decides it can't find the site and when that happens it persists until I reboot. I even tried disconnecting the ethernet cable and reconnecting to see if it would fix itself and it doesn't. BUT at the same time this happens, I can do a direct nslookup for the offending site name and whammo, nslookup finds the IP!
I can then add the IP to %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and the problem will never come up again for that particular site. Of course if the site changes IP addys in the future then whammo I'm in trouble :(
What can I do besides editing the hosts file to keep my system from going on the fritz like this?
One system works just fine and it handles all DNS requests without a problem, but my newer system is acting up fiercely.
When I use netscape or MSIE to browse web pages it occasionally decides it can't find the site and when that happens it persists until I reboot. I even tried disconnecting the ethernet cable and reconnecting to see if it would fix itself and it doesn't. BUT at the same time this happens, I can do a direct nslookup for the offending site name and whammo, nslookup finds the IP!
I can then add the IP to %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and the problem will never come up again for that particular site. Of course if the site changes IP addys in the future then whammo I'm in trouble :(
What can I do besides editing the hosts file to keep my system from going on the fritz like this?
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