Weird Vista/IE7 problem

[weirdwaldo]

So I installed vista the other day, pretty slick so far but for one thing, IE7.

So I'll be browsing and seemingly at random IE7 will give me DNS errors for 95% of the sites I go to, anandtech forums being one of the few oddly 🙂

I know the connection is still good cause my VOIP works and bittorrent works still, just IE7 just wont load most websites. After awhile everything works hunky dorey again. *shrugs*

And Weirdest of all is the fact that sometimes one IE7 tab/window will work but the other wont?!?!

Any ideas guys?

 

[weirdwaldo]

EDIT!!!!!

S'posed to say "anandtech forums being one of the few I can visit oddly enough"

Strangly the edit button dont work either

*Edit!!! (slightly later)*

Firefox does the same thing. and I should mention windows XP (yay dual boot) never fails in internet'isms.

Also later noted, all websites die within time

 

[btcomm1]

Torrents may not require DNS, you may need to hard code your DNS servers in your tcp/ip settings. If that doesn't fix it, the next time you have this issue go to the command prompt and type ping www.anandtech.com and see if you get an error unknown host.

 

[weirdwaldo]

well I tried hard wiring the DNS in there and at first thought it had fixed it, but no....

Pinging sites gave me an 'unknown host' error, and if I try pinging my router I get a "General Failure" error

 

[travisray2004]

Do you have a firewall/router or are you directly connected to the web. For dns, you can try using 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 those are public dns servers. good luck mate 🙂

 

[tommytran]

what happen when you ping localhost or 127.0.0.1?

 

[weirdwaldo]

well I havent had oodles of time to fix the prob lately. But I have found that doing the 'Reset network adapter' option that pops up now and then seems to fix the problem