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Name: Sebastian
Date: November 23, 2001 at 14:35:38 Pacific
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I'm having strange problem on my newly installed Win2k Pro PC. It is inside LAN using DHCP. The problem is that I can ping servers in the internet, but I can't access them using a browser.

Netscape says: Netscape's network connection was refused by the server ..... The server may not be accepting connections or may be busy.

Explorer only says: The page cannot be displayed.
I already disabled the show friendly HTTP option.

I have another PC (Win98) in the same LAN (same subnet too) and it can access everything perfectly.

I already tried to connect an ISP via Modem. There is the same effect. I can ping the servers, but can't access them using the browser.

Any clues? Thanks for any help in advance



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Name: FJ
Date: November 23, 2001 at 21:40:42 Pacific
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Go to Network and Dial-up Connections, then right click on your ISP icon and click on properties. Try selecting "Obtain DNS server address automatically" on the NETWORKING tab. Highlight the TCP/IP protocol and select properties to get to the DNS page.

Write down your DNS numbers before you select the auto box.

Some servers are setup to allow this and if yours is, it could fix you right up.

If not contact your ISP for new DNS numbers.


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Response Number 2
Name: Sebastian
Date: November 24, 2001 at 11:40:12 Pacific
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This option is already checked. And IPConfig shows that the rigth DNS servers are in use.
And the system seems to use these DNS servers because I can ping the webservers domain names e.g. ping google.com is successful. But I can't access the page via a webbrowser, and I can't access any FTP server using e.g. LeechFTP. There the error message is "no socket connection".

Is there an update for Win2k releating DNS support?


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Response Number 3
Name: FJ
Date: November 24, 2001 at 18:23:34 Pacific
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Sorry but I'm stumped. Someone may come along in awhile and help you out, so keep watching.


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Response Number 4
Name: Paul Simcic
Date: November 26, 2001 at 23:05:23 Pacific
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Make sure that your default gateway is correct. I thought it would be DNS also but it looks like you checked that option out.


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Response Number 5
Name: Chase May
Date: January 9, 2002 at 21:18:41 Pacific
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I am having the same problem on a new windows 2000 laptop. Please help someone...


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