DNS issues

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I am having a very erratic internet connection issue. Sometime I do not have internet connection (message: the page can not be displayed). As soon as I go to Network Neighborhood, right click, properties, tcpIP, properties, advanced, DNS, and I will change the order and all I have to do is refresh my IE browser to get connection, that happens to some XP PC's
 
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Max said:
I am having a very erratic internet connection issue. Sometime I do
not have internet connection (message: the page can not be
displayed). As soon as I go to Network Neighborhood, right click,
properties, tcpIP, properties, advanced, DNS, and I will change the
order and all I have to do is refresh my IE browser to get
connection, that happens to some XP PC's
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What are the two DNS servers you are using?
Do you have a local DNS server?
 
You want to try running "ipconfig /flushdns" at the command prompt. This may solve it temporarily. When in the broken state though, use NSLOOKUP to see if
you can resolve Internet names. Just run NSLOOKUP from a command prompt. It will connect you to the default DNS server. Query for something that you
know was failing. Does this work? Next, type "server IP" where IP is the second DNS server the client is configured with. Again query for something you know
wasn't working. If neither work, I'd suspect that the internet connection is down. If only one works, I'd suspect a problem with your ISP's DNS servers. What you
may want to do is setup your own DNS internally. Point all clients to this DNS server. This DNS server will use root hints to resolve Internet names and may
solve your issue.

Thank you,
Mike Johnston
Microsoft Network Support

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