I can ping IP addresses but I can't ping DNS names as a result IE will not let me on the internet.

[cavingjan]

That makes sense. How are you hooking them together? Cable Modem to Hub/Switch to Computers? Do you have enough IP addresses? Are you trying with the 95 system on or off? Install the TCP stack from the CD. I suspect that the zone alarm wacked something.
What was the purpose of the second NIC anyway?

 

[spidey07]

sounds like a stack problem (AOL at it again)

When you "reinstall" tcp/ip you aren't actually overwriting anything then registry settings. Search microsoft site for the files you need to delete and TRULY reinstall TCP/IP (dhcp.vxd, tcpip.vxd, etc).

I've seen this before where certain parts of the stack work fine but others do not...like ping, GetHostByName (your problem), Telnet, WWW, etc.

good luck!

 

[Wirehead]

Cavingjan,

I was putting an ISA NIC in instead of a PCI as I needed the PCI NIC in another computer. Currently I am testing my W98SE machine as a stand alone. I am also using the Win95 machine as a stand alone. I did put two NICs in the Win95 machine with a cross over cable to the NIC in the W98SE machine just to see if I could set up a LAN and make the NICs work. All the NICs worked fine and were able to ping each other and pass files to each other. These were the same NICs that would not let me get on the internet with the Win98SE machine. I am almost convinced that this is not a NIC problem. I will try the Stack suggestions. I will let you know.
Thanks.

 

[Xanathar]

in a command prompt, can you ping RR's DNS server, or any web page, BY its Domain Name?

Does www.yahoo.com resolve? or MSN.com ? Not the IP address, but the name. If it does, your problem lies in your internet explorer settings, be it either because of some software corrupted it, or you have it set up to connect via a proxy, or set to always dial for a connection, yet no dialup adapters, or even it set to highest security.

 

[Wirehead]

Xanathar,

Thanks for the reply. No, I cannot ping a DNS name from the DOS prompt or the Start Run dialogue box. I have checked all my IE settings. They all seemed OK. I even reduced all the security setting. It still did not help so I reset the broswer to the default values. Thanks any other ideas.

 

[ElDiablo]

When you re-installed did you format the hard drive or are you just overwriting the previous installations. It doesn't make sense that this would be a software problem if you have removed what used to be there. Ought to be a clean slate so that problem should have disappeared if that was the case.

Unless you have some virus that has infected your bios or the bios on your nic, this has to be some sort of hardware problem.

BTW, do you still have both nic's installed or are you using just one, and if so, which??

 

[Wirehead]

Eldiablo,

No, I am only using one NIC. It is an ISA 3COM etherlink III. Whatever my computer is sending to the RR DNS server is not being understood by the server. The DNS server should be translating or resolving the DNS name to an IP address then sending me the appropriate web page, but it dosen't. If I put yahoo.com in the Windows host file with its IP address, then I can ping yahoo.com at the DOS prompt, but IE still will not let me go to yahoo. The problem with putting the translation of the name to an IP address in the Host file is that I having my computer do the translation instead of the DNS server. I am not fixing the problem. Do you have any other advice please? Thanks.

 

[tim0thy]

Have you tried another NIC card with the computer? One that you know beyond a resonable doubt that it works...

BTW, definitely true on the more you know, the less you really know... I think I'm like an idiot now after reading all those technical books (and I'm going for more )

 

[ucdnam]

Wirehead:
If it works for one machine but not another, then it's obviously not the service right?
Sounds like you've tried everything possible in the world.
Only thing I can think of is to pull everything out (sound card, modem if you have one, scsi card, etc) and format the HD.
Reboot, reinstall windows, and try again.
When you reinstall windows on top of one another, i think the settings are stored since some files are still there.

I think you should format, install network card, properly configure TCP/IP for the RR service, and it should work. If it doesn't, damn, you've got quite a problem. Remember to format

 

[ElDiablo]

You still haven't said if you are formatting or not (I assume not).

If you could 'sniff' your own exiting packets and make sure they are in the correct format that would probably help quite a bit. If they are incorrect, you need to wipe out your tcp/ip/ethernet settings/drivers and re-install them. And if they were fine you could check the incoming packets. If they are correct, then same thing as above.


Have you tried running tracert to see if you are going through the same routers every time?? Although 8 wks would be a long time for a router to be messed up, it is possible. Either that or the router/your computer may be hacked.

Another interesting idea would be to try and go through another DNS server. Try finding out what AOL's is by IP address and putting that into your TCP/IP settings.

Lastly, have you tried wiping out the drivers for the 3com card and re-installing?? Perhaps the problem lies there and they got mucked up somehow. I would download the latest drivers and tell windows to override the old files on an update.

Final suggestion would be to go back to using the pci card since that seems to be the only one that has worked in *this* computer.