Re: (PM) DNS Question

Troy M. Barnhart (barney@rapidnet.com)
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 21:58:58 -0700 (MST)

We've seen it w/ customers who have had IE 4.00 on their system.
Ones who've had the Active Desktop Enabled and for some reason
removed it. My hunch is that AD replaced some of the OS.

Troy M. Barnhart
barney@rapidnet.com
Technical Support
RapidNet L.L.C.
(605) 341-3283

On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Jake Messinger wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Aaron (Zim) wrote:
>
> > Anyone ever seen this? user dials up, i'm able to ping, she's able to do
> > anything w/ ip addresses, but any name she enters is immediatly rejected..
> > while i was on the phone w/ her we completely removed then reinstalled
> > dial-up networking & Tcp/Ip.. under tcp/ip settings of her connection icon
> > we tried both server assigned and specified name server addresses.. both
> > had the same result.. here's what i saw while doing a tcpdump on her
> > connection..
> >
> > 17:42:01.867291 tpm5-25.ballistic.com.1050 > mail.ballistic.com.domain: 3+
> > (32) (ttl 31, id 37888)
> > 17:42:01.874070 mail.ballistic.com.domain > tpm5-25.ballistic.com.1050: 3
> > NXDomain* 0/1/0 (105) (ttl 64, id 64801)
> >
> > anyone seen this before? It appears that her computer is rejecting my
> > nameserver's answer?
> > she had nothing running other than her connection to me, and netscape.. Its
> > not a netscape specific error, as eudora, or her news reader both give the
> > same error, and i see the same thing thru tcpdump..
>
> This may be related. One of the PC's here with WIN 95 suddenly cant
> resolve via DNS. I have gone into the network settings a dozen times and
> checked and readded the DNS info. It still immediately fails a dns lookup.
> I can telnet anywhere via the ip so I know the tcpip stack is intact.
>
> This is NOT on a PM 2, however, this is a locally attached win 95 box. I
> fear there is some kind of virus possibly... I have done EVERYTHING to get
> dns to work again. I have deleted and reinstalled the tcpip, and the
> ethernet card.
>
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