my browser does not recognise non-www. domains

[rookie1010]

i have got a speedtouch 330, which is a single adsl connection to my pc.

i dont think i have updated any of software of the adsl modem today.

i am using firefox 1.5 and trying out ie also

 

[office politics]

run a tracert and see where the traffic stops

ipconfig /flushdns may help as well

 

[rookie1010]

thanks for the reply

i tried a tracert on news.bbc.co.uk and it came up with 9 hops

next i did a tracert on www.bbc.co.uk and it says
"Unable to resolve target system name www.bbc.co.uk"

how do i use an ipconfig to solve the problem

how do i use flushdns ?

 

[office politics]

next i did a tracert on www.bbc.co.uk and it says
"Unable to resolve target system name www.bbc.co.uk"

how do i use an ipconfig to solve the problem

how do i use flushdns ?

definately a dns issue

run ipconfig /flushdns from a command line and try again. this will delete your local dns cache.

 

[rookie1010]

this time around tech-heaven took some time to reload, i hope next on line is not tech-heaven


where does this dns issue reside

i did the ipcinfig /flushdns

and it came up with the message

windows ip configuration

successfully flushed the dns resolver cache



typed in news.bbc.co.uk

and it comes back with the server not found ...

www.bbc.co.uk has no problems

surprisingly tracert news.bbc.co.uk is "do-able" (10 hops)



i did a ipconfig /displaydns and it came up with a whole bunch of

record name ....... winmx.com
such as c3522.z1305.winmx.com
c3313.z1304.winmx.com
winmx.xoc

i could get to www.bbc.co.uk
and it came up with record for www.bbc.co.uk, however when i did the ipconfiog /displaydns a second time, the entry for www.bbc.co.uk is not there

i did a flushdns followed by a displaydns and all the winmx entries are still there(other entries have gone)

 

[TheMajor]

I now have the same problem! Both in IE and Opera. But only with www.opera.com
Other sites seem to work fine.

 

[EricB]

try cleaning your host files

 

[TheMajor]

It is empty.

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# Dit is een voorbeeld HOSTS-bestand dat wordt gebruikt door Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# Dit bestand bevat de toewijzingen van IP-adressen naar hostnamen. Elke vermelding
# moet op een afzonderlijke regel staan. Het IP-adres dient in de eerste kolom te worden
# geplaatst, gevolgd door de bijbehorende hostnaam. Het IP-adres en de hostnaam dienen
# gescheiden te zijn door ten minste één spatie.
#
# Daarnaast kunnen opmerkingen (zoals deze) worden toegevoegd op extra
# regels of gevolgd door de computernaam, voorafgegaan door een #.
#
# Bijvoorbeeld:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # bronserver
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x clienthost

127.0.0.1 localhost

 

[rookie1010]

my browsers are behaving today !

 

[TheMajor]

I found the solution. I just realized I installed ipv6 a few days ago using the "install ipv6" command. I uninstalled it and everything works fine. Type "uninstall ipv6" under Start-->Run.