network to xp to xp

[Matthew Carpenter]

Hey Keith-

How does your home network get configured?  Do you use DHCP or is the
downstairs PC hard-configured?
The DNS servers that your system uses probably gets dynamically configured by
your ISP.  You should be able to see that information on your gateway by either
typing "ipconfig /all" in XP and "cat /etc/resolv.conf" in Linux.

If you are hard-coding the network configuration in the XP machine down stairs,
you should have the DNS servers configured in there (as in, actually in the
Network Config fields) and they shouldn't vary.  If they are hard configured
and they are different than your gateway, perhaps the DNS servers the XP box is
using are having issues.  This could explain why the gateway and XP box see
different results.

Many other possibilities, but we'll leave it at that for now and see where it
leads us.

Sorry we haven't been able to help much yet.

begin  On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 20:27:24 +1000
Keith Antoine <kantoine at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Well after My Network places there is no Nic Device etc.
> I can set up DNS if I had IP's to place in there but I do not have any.
> I am on cable and do not have any primary IP's.


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Matthew Carpenter
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