When I go to Google by IP I get:
When I go to Google by domain name I get:
This is confirmed by Windows Live Messenger:
However, Firefox just works fine:
When I do a DNS lookup I get this result:
C:\Windows\system32>nslookup google.com
Server: google-public-dns-b.google.com
Address: 8.8.4.4
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Addresses: 74.125.79.104
74.125.79.99
74.125.79.147
However, pinging fails by name (but works by IP):
C:\Windows\system32>ping google.com
Ping request could not find host google.com. Please check the name and try again.
C:\Windows\system32>ping 74.125.79.104
Pinging 74.125.79.104 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.79.104: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=52
Ping statistics for 74.125.79.104:
Packets: Sent = 1, Received = 1, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 23ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 23ms
These are my settings, which look correct to me:
Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection 4:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : WIJSMAN
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-16-EA-5E-58-CE
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.178(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, June 17, 2011 7:06:49 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, June 18, 2011 7:07:06 PM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 8.8.4.4
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
I have tried the following things:
- Disabled any firewalls and virus scanners.
- Reset everything in
netsh
,winsock
,int ip
and so on... - Completely reset the settings of Internet Explorer, including personal settings.
- Started every single service on my computer, to ensure I'm not missing something critical.
- Installed and uninstalled a lot of network-device-tampering programs like VMWare, VirtualBox, ...
- Ran
sfc /scannow
, to check whether something was corrupted.
I have done a lot of research but have not yet found where Microsoft based programs go wrong while other programs like Firefox, Jing and mIRC go right. Do you have an idea?
%SystemRoot%\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
, also use Wireshark to check whether Windows even tries DNS.