OK, here's the deal. Windows XP machine that I use as a tablet mostly. Monday I tried to use the Internet and it failed so I traced it down to the DNS. The DNS Server works fine because every other computer works with it and THIS computer works with it just not in Windows. It's not the hardware because if I boot into Linux the DNS works fine so it's something with Windows. I've tried refreshing everything and I removed all my protocols and settings and it still fails. The weird part is nslookup works fine but ping fails to resolve the host. What Windows services have to be running for DNS, why does nslookup work but not anything else that needs DNS? More info: I'm trying to use wireless but it's not that because both wireless and wired fail. Wireless and wired work fine in linux. - It's not a virus or trojan, I ran full scans yesterday and it found nothing. - I can ping any server with it's IP but not host. If i set a host in my host file it works fine so it's defiantly DNS
greetings, you've just banned mdns component on your firewall... other suggestion is to check dns settings and flush dns cache ipconfig /all ipconfig /flushdns
the dns works fine, it's something with Windows and the DNS Client...when I use ping or a browser what ever does dns lookups is failing