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When I go to Google by IP I get:
When I go to Google by domain name I get:
This is confirmed by Windows Live Messenger:
However, Firefox just works fine:
When I do a DNS lookup I get this result:
C:\Windows\system32>nslookup google.com
Server: google-public-dns-b.google.com
Address: 8.8.4.4
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Addresses: 74.125.79.104
74.125.79.99
74.125.79.147
However, pinging fails by name (but works by IP):
C:\Windows\system32>ping google.com
Ping request could not find host google.com. Please check the name and try again.
C:\Windows\system32>ping 74.125.79.104
Pinging 74.125.79.104 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.79.104: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=52
Ping statistics for 74.125.79.104:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 23ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 23ms
These are my settings, which look correct to me:
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection 4:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : WIJSMAN
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-16-EA-5E-58-CE
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.178(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, June 17, 2011 7:06:49 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, June 18, 2011 7:07:06 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 8.8.4.4
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
I have tried the following things:
- Disabled any firewalls and virus scanners.
- Reset everything in
netsh
,winsock
,int ip
and so on... - Completely reset the settings of Internet Explorer, including personal settings.
- Started every single service on my computer, to ensure I'm not missing something critical.
- Installed and uninstalled a lot of network-device-tampering programs like VMWare, VirtualBox, ...
- Ran
sfc /scannow
, to check whether something was corrupted.
I have done a lot of research but have not yet found where Microsoft based programs go wrong while other programs like Firefox, Jing and mIRC go right. Do you have an idea?
The application itself has to be programmed to resolve it. If it is not in the programming, then the application won't do it. – MaQleod – 2011-06-17T17:28:32.560
I don't want to post this as a full answer as it is likely not it but check your internet settings for windows and see if you have a proxy set up. Firefox does not follow windows internet settings by default. – Scott Chamberlain – 2011-06-17T17:35:05.040
Check
%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
, also use Wireshark to check whether Windows even tries DNS. – user1686 – 2011-06-17T17:39:30.893@MaQleod: What do you mean? – Tamara Wijsman – 2011-06-17T17:49:28.073
@ScottChamberlain: Tried every possible way of configuring that. – Tamara Wijsman – 2011-06-17T17:50:19.960
@grawity: Tried with default hosts file and with disabling the hosts file. Wireshark does nothing when I ping but correctly does things when I
nslookup
, so ping can't seem to resolve the name. – Tamara Wijsman – 2011-06-17T17:50:59.710@grawity: After adding a . DNS suffix I do see proper DNS queries being answered in Wireshark for
– Tamara Wijsman – 2011-06-17T17:58:30.020google.com
, however, I still getPing request could not find host google.com. Please check the name and try again.
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