Hi all, I have a problem with the following PC I;m trying to diagnose for someone: - 400MHz Intel, 64M Ram, CD, Win 98SE, NIC card, Creative Labs 56K Modem. It seems when dialing into the ISP, the modem will: Dial, Negotiate, Handshake, Check Password, and Connect fine. But, whenever you attempt to access a web page, I get a DNS error page (The icons in the tray don't even blink when I hit enter....like it's not even attempting to go to a DNS server.) Here's what I've done/diagnosed so far.... - Every protocol imaginable was loaded. All removed except TCP/IP and NetBeui. - Removed DUN and reinstalled. - Removed modem and reinstalled. - Removed NIC card and reinstalled. - Checked Network icon in Control Panel (Setup on Windows Logon, TCP/IP -> Dial Up Adapter removed and reinstalled). All result in same....no web page. I performed the following: - Ping www.ispname.com: Resulted in "Unable to resolve host name. - Ping 216.238.0.10(ISP address): Result - worked fine and sucessfully ping-ed. - Tracert www.ispname.com: Resulted in unable to to resolve host name. - Tracert 216.238.0.11 worked fine However (This is the weird part), in IE 5.5 I tried www.google.com....nothing. I then tried http://216.239.33.100/ (This should bring up Google by it's address)...still nothing (Yet, I could ping it)? I've checked to make sure that there's no proxy server set up on this thing. I even put my own ISP configuration on this PC with the same results. I put the PC in question's ISP configuration on my machine and I can log in using their logon. I'm confused...can anybody offer any suggestions?

Try this-- Go to regedit Hkey_local_machine System Services Delete winsock2 folder If asked to restart, say no Uninstall dialup Restart Reinstall dialup See if it works now Post back with results...

Look in add/remove programs for a program called newdotnet. Uninstall it. Reboot.

Well, found out what the problem was. Thanks dc, that took care of it. Can see everything now. I knew I'd eventually find someone who knew what this thing was doing! ;) Again, thanks.