can ping, but can not open website

[john]

Hi!
I got a xp, and this week I got a problem, I can ping
every host machine like yahoo, but can't open the website
by ie.
what is the problem? how to fix it?
thank you in advance

yours
john

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

If you type "ipconfig /renew" at a command prompt, does it succeed?