Public DNS server?

[dmorin at lear.morinfamily.com (Duane Morin)]

>    One simple test that has often worked for me when I
> have "unusual" tcp/ip problems on a windows box is to
> uninstall tcpip, then reboot, and then reinstall
> tcpip. 

I'll give it a shot.  How does one uninstall/reinstall tcpip?

Duane

> 
>    While it may not explain the problem it often
> resolved it for me. 
> 
>    Just My $0.02
> 
> --- Jerry Feldman <gaf at gaf.blu.org> wrote:
> > Ok, I'm not an XP expert, but I do have a Linksys
> > BEFW11S4 router. 
> > If you can ping an external IP address, then your
> > routing seems to be
> > ok. The XP system should work even with the firewall
> > in place. 
> > ping itself is a bit strange. First, it uses the
> > ICMP prototol, not TCP
> > that is used by ftp and telnet. 
> > Again, the steps that are needed is to make sure
> > that the router is
> > providing the appropriate connectivity, and I think
> > you have done that. 
> > Make sure that you can also ping and ftp to your
> > Linux box. That will
> > establish that the routing tables are ok. Also, if
> > you have SMB
> > configured on the Linux box, set up a share on the
> > XP, and run smbclient
> > on the linux box to see if it can see the share. 
> > 
> > I would still want to run a test by connecting the
> > XP box directly to
> > the cable modem.  (You would need to register your
> > MAC address with AT&T
> > BB. I use the same MAC address in my router that I
> > do with my main
> > desktop PC.  
> > 
> > Beyond that I don't know how to proceed since the
> > problems seem to
> > emanate from the XP box. 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:25:57 -0500
> > Duane Morin <dmorin at morinfamily.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > At 10:09 AM 2/13/2003 -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > > >Why not run a DNS server on your Linux box inside
> > your network. The
> > > >use that as your primary DNS server for the XP
> > box.
> > > 
> > > Default gateway == router, 192.168.1.1.
> > > 
> > > DHCP address is assigned by router (*), and subnet
> > mask is
> > > 255.255.255.0.
> > > 
> > > I think I've confirmed that I've got no external
> > connectivity out of
> > > the XP box.  Despite the fact that I can ping some
> > known IP machines,
> > > I timeout when attempting to telnet or ftp to them
> > (including to a
> > > variety of ports, including 80).  So is it
> > possible
> > > to have lost outgoing connectivity somewhere
> > between ping and telnet?
> > > 
> > > Attempts to telnet, ssh or ftp from the XP box to
> > my internal machines
> > > is fine.
> > > 
> > > I have completely uninstalled Norton virus and
> > firewall.  I also
> > > apaprently accidentally removed VNC, which I
> > didn't mean to do, but
> > > now am unable to use this machine to run Xapps
> > from my linux box :-/.
> > > 
> > > I will work on putting a dns server onto my linux
> > machine so that I
> > > can at least get myself running again.  But boy,
> > is this frustrating.
> > > 
> > > Duane
> > > 
> > > P.S. - Since I have so few machines this machine
> > is almost always .102
> > > or .103.  For some reason, today it is .109.  My
> > router tells me that
> > > it is the only dhcp client, though.  Not quite
> > sure what's up with
> > > that.
> > > 
> > 
> 
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> 
> 
> =====
> .           Regards,       
>           Vince McHugh
>      Systems Support Manager
>           NECS\Canon
> 
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