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My Win7 box is erroneously resolving a IP address.
I had the same problem last week and "fixed" that by switching to Google Public DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 for IPV4 and the others for IPv6.
So when I do an ipconfig /all it says the DNS servers are indeed pointing at Google but on any other outside system this resolves just fine, internally however it does not.
When I do a tracert it resolves to the wrong address as with a Ping.
When I say the wrong address it resolves to the correct server but Im using a secondary IP on the server for a website and it's resolving to the servers primary IP not the secondary so the site 404s "only on this machine" so it's not a server setup issue.
Ive checked the Hosts file in etc/Drivers and no entries are in there.
The machine itself it on a LAN, not really sure of its status, I dont think it's being controlled by a domain as it's just in Workgroup>Workgroup with no DOMAIN prefix as I would normally expect.
It is getting it's IP from a DHCP server but as above I am overriding the DNS settings locally with the
Use the following DNS server addresses
which is showing up in IPconfig as I would expect 8.8.8.8 etc.
So my question is what else could be overriding the resolution of my domain name to the proper IP address between my machine and the internet.
UPDATE:
I should also add that if I put an entry INTO Hosts file for the domain >> IP it will resolve correctly. So it's not being "absolutely" overridden / hijacked.
UPDATE 2:
Using NSLookup I get the following for both my domain and even just for www.google.com
It would seem that 1: The machine is using IPV6 by default (is this normal?) and 2. it's not resolving properly via Google Public DNS on IPV6
So if 2 is correct ,would this mean the machine will fall back to using LAN DNS settings??
Thanks, please see my update 2. Any thoughts? – rism – 2014-03-10T22:33:44.043