One of my computer started acting up lately. It's a home file server and download box (always on), I manage it only by VNC (no monitor hooked) It's running Windows 2000 SP4. Motherboard is an ABIT VA-10 with onboard Via LAN. It's wired on a WRT54GS router (now running DDWRT firmware, was previously on HyperWRT when problem first popped out).
The first symptom was that most (except 3-4) of the downloads in Azureus where getting "UnknownHostExeption" errors. The few active downloads completed normally. No uploads were active. I thought it was an Azureus problem, and closed it to explore the issue later. VNC and file sharing were still up and running.
A few days later, I noticed the anti-virus update returned a DNS name resolving error. I tried to start a browser, and it couldn't find any webpages. The other computers on the network have full normal internet access.
Here's what I tried/checked:
rebooting the computer and router
switched connection port on the router
ipconfig/flushdns
ipconfig/renew
ping the router & other PC on same network (works)
ping a website (Unknown host)
ping same website IP (works)
Reinstalling the LAN drivers
Anti-virus/spyware scans (clean)
Installed a new router firmware
The PC can access the internet in safe mode though. The network/router are always available, but not the internet. :frown:
Most seem to agree it's a DNS issue, but anyone can help to solve it? If you need more info, I'll gladly provide it to you. Thank you all in advance. :beer:
The first symptom was that most (except 3-4) of the downloads in Azureus where getting "UnknownHostExeption" errors. The few active downloads completed normally. No uploads were active. I thought it was an Azureus problem, and closed it to explore the issue later. VNC and file sharing were still up and running.
A few days later, I noticed the anti-virus update returned a DNS name resolving error. I tried to start a browser, and it couldn't find any webpages. The other computers on the network have full normal internet access.
Here's what I tried/checked:
rebooting the computer and router
switched connection port on the router
ipconfig/flushdns
ipconfig/renew
ping the router & other PC on same network (works)
ping a website (Unknown host)
ping same website IP (works)
Reinstalling the LAN drivers
Anti-virus/spyware scans (clean)
Installed a new router firmware
The PC can access the internet in safe mode though. The network/router are always available, but not the internet. :frown:
Most seem to agree it's a DNS issue, but anyone can help to solve it? If you need more info, I'll gladly provide it to you. Thank you all in advance. :beer:
