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Hi guys,
im trying to help a friend of mine get to a website that he goes on but he keeps getting dns error's when trying to connect to it.
every other site works on his computer apart from this one site and everyone else can log on to this site perfectly ok.
what could be wrong ?
thanx mike :D
Might post the link here and let someone else try it. The site could be down.
the site is defanitly up mate i can get on it. he has been able to since thursday.
he is on freeserve broadband and somebody said it could be freeserves dns server not working properly so if anyone on freeserve bb could click on this link and tell me what happens.
thanx
LINK
Mike
Edit : also cant ping the website . unknown host
http://www.ukfiestanetwork.co.uk/
If that was the link you intended - it worked fine for me.
you might compare the security settings of your friends browser with someone who CAN get there clean. He might have something disabled. Good Luck
If other hosts can be pinged (and their IP address looked up), then it is not a security settings problem, but a DNS problem.
Windows XP includes the NSLOOKUP tool. When you run NSLOOKUP it will use your primary DNS server to do the lookups. One assumes that your primary DNS server is managed by your ISP. If nslookup www.ukfiestanetwork.co.uk fails, then that means your ISP isn't getting frequent updates or is not doing recursive DNS properly.
Modifying \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS to include:
should alleviate the problem so long as the IP of the site does not change.Code:212.227.119.114 www.ukfiestanetwork.co.uk
Thanx guys will try that. ;)