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Very aggrivating Networking problem

M

Mandrill

Golden Member
First off the set up:

Telocity DSL gateway -> Linksys One port router -> 5 port 10/100 switch

PC's

2 Win 98 machine
1 Win 2k Server machine acting

All pc's have assigned IP's. The win 2k box is set up for a DNS server for the network.

The Problem:

Ok...I've been running this set up just fine for the past 10 months or so until yesterday when I reinstalled the Win 2k OS.

The problem is that none of the Win 98 pc's can use the net but the Win2k Machine can. I can see and ping all of the machines on the local network from each pc. I bring up my browser set up page in all of my pc's. I can ping my gateway as well as ip addresses out on the net from any of the pc's.

What I can't do is connect to any web pages, online games, ftp sites, ICQ, etc with the Win 98 pcs. I also cannot connect to my dsl gateways status page either. The Win 98 pc's don't "see it"

The Win 98 pc's access the DNS server on the windows box fine. The DNS spits back an ip to the web browser (I get the Connecting to site "ip address" at the bottom left of IE) but then it times out with the "The page cannot be displayed" error.

I have also used Simple DNS Plus and have had the same results. I've used both programs successfully in the past so I cannot understand what the problem is.

I've forwared port 53 to the Win 2k box and that changed nothing. the network setting on the 98 boxes have not changed and I used the same settings as I used before on the Win2k box.

I am really at a loss as to why the machines are no longer working.
Can anyone help me with this?

I have tried what was talked about a few threads below. It sounded very simmilar to my problem but those tips didn't help.

I am very open to suggestions if anyone has any.

P.S. I even tried connecting the gateway to one win 98 machine directly and that was still even a no go
 
Since you can see everywhere from every machine when you use the actual IP address, it has to be an issue with the DNS box.

You probably (IMHO) need to set the ISP's DNS addresses in your DNS as "Forwarders." You can confirm this by putting the ISP's DNS addresses in any of your WIN9x boxes and trying to get out. If you're sucessfull, your local DNS is the problem.

If you have the Forwarders addresses in your Win2K box (or local DNS), then start looking at stuff like your domain names/zones, static routes, etc in the WIN2K box. Try doing an "NSLOOKUP" from a DOS window ('C:\NSLOOKUP www.microsoft.com'). You'll probably get a "not found" error.

Other problems like this have also been attributed to firewall software running on the box (front-end disabled, but the process is still active - check your "services" from the control panel).

Good Luck

Scott
 
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