DSN error

[kb2010]

i seem to be getting a lot of DNS errors... eg when loading speedguide it said DNS error, i refreshed and it worked perfectly...would you know why??

[TrueAmerican]

try doing a tracert, under win9x/me go to start-run-command and type command. then type tracert www.yahoo.com and post your results. Another is that you may be going through a proxy server. In internet explorer go to tools-internet options-connections tab-lan settings- uncheck anything thats there. Do you have an @home service? they are having network problems everywhere so it might not just be you. If you do have @home did you install thier software?

[kb2010]

sorry for replying late..i replyed this same statement in another post and i am copying it here..

Old PC
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pentium 166
32mb ram
win98
one NIC

New PC
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AMD 1.4GHZ
256MB Ram
MSI K7t266 pro Mobo
two NIC's with seperate IRQ's

Network
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installed wingate, using standard network coennection for a person who want to share a cable modem with both his pc's so far both pc's work and can access the internet....

the proxy thing didnt show any significant increase in speed :P but then what increases in speed these days :P

but after doing that proxy thing...i seem to be getting a lot of DNS errors... it could be because optus is doing a routine maintainance thats lasting 4 days ... and its pure coincidental...

if others are having the same prob i would be happy to hear you out... maybe its just the maintainance and not my connection ...

the tracert reveal this with out the sites..unless if you want that too..

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1 9 ms 8 ms 9 ms

2 10 ms 9 ms 9 ms
3 14 ms 9 ms 48 ms
4 19 ms 10 ms 10 ms

5 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms
6 10 ms 12 ms 10 ms
7 173 ms 174 ms 175 ms
8 251 ms 256 ms 253 ms

9 303 ms 304 ms 304 ms

10 304 ms 305 ms 311 ms

11 316 ms 309 ms 306 ms

12 307 ms 309 ms 307 ms

13 * * *
14 308 ms 306 ms 311 ms
15 432 ms 308 ms 346 ms
16 311 ms 309 ms 309 ms

[Lobo]

Please click in my signature where it says Test tweak here, then:
At top where it says edit click and select, Select all,
Then go back to same edit button at top, click and select copy.
Come back to Speedguide, same thread you were on, in post reply box, with cursor blinking at begining of box go to top, edit, click, select paste, click, this will put information in box. Please X out your IP address, Thank you.:)

[kb2010]

TCP properties for IP = iam.not.say.ing ()
Note: Read the FAQ if the above is not your IP address.
Browser/OS = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; MSOCD)

TCP options string = 020405b40103030201010402

MTU = 1500
MTU is fully optimized for broadband.

MSS = 1460
Maximum useful data in each packet = 1460, which is equal to MSS.

Default Receive Window (RWIN) = 256960
RWIN Scaling (RFC1323) = 2 bits
Unscaled Receive Window = 64240
RWIN is a multiple of MSS
Other values for RWIN that might work well with your current MTU/MSS:
513920 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 8)
128480 (MSS x 44 * scale factor of 2)
64240 (MSS x 44)

bandwidth * delay product:
Your RcvWindow limits you to: 10278.4 kbps (1284.8 KBytes/s) @ 200ms
Your RcvWindow limits you to: 4111.36 kbps (513.92 KBytes/s) @ 500ms

MTU Discovery (RFC1191) = ON

Time to live left = 43 hops
TTL value is ok.

Timestamps (RFC1323) = OFF

Selective Acknowledgements (RFC2018) = ON

IP type of service field (RFC1349)= 00000000