Need a registry fix for Win2K DNS problem.

[Mr.Goodbytes]

Ok, I had this problem before when using ICS with windows 98, but now I'm just dialing into the net with a Windows 2000 machine. On two different ISP's it connects just fine. It gets the IP address and identifies the DNS servers and the DHCP server properly. I can ping those servers and mine as well. I cannot, however, ping a web address like www.yahoo.com (http://www.yahoo.com) or view any web pages with IE.

I've tried removing and reinstalling network protocols to no avail. A friend of mine had told me there was a fix in the registry for this sort of problem, but he didn't know it. I checked regedit.com, but they had nothing. Is anyone aware of this fix specifically for Windows 2000 as it's registry is structured differently than 98?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

[surrealchereal]

On two different ISP's it connects just fine. It gets the IP address and identifies the DNS servers and the DHCP server properly. I can ping those servers and mine as well.
In the TCP/IP adaptor properties, is it set up to do anything other than obtain IP address automatically? What about header compression? Did you do this manually or with software? If you used software I would still double ck all the Network adaptors etc. Then ck the modem properties. If you don't see anything, set your modem to create a log file. Log on, try a few things and see if there are any indications of the problem in the file. Let us know.

[BBA]

Just set the DNS manually to what the ISP uses...leave DHCP enabled at the same time...it will work fine.

W2K has a different TCP/IP stack than anything else, and it's performance is so good because it doesn't have some of the overhead content...and that DNS thing with certain ISP's seems to be the biggest bug.

[Mr.Goodbytes]

Thanks for the advice. I happened to find some other issues created when the system was installed, and the losers who set it up used FAT32 for a strictly business environment. So I just backed it up on my network and scrapped it and started clean. Runs a lot better now in every respect.