Makiwa » Uncategorized http://www.makiwa.com Stuart Campbell's occasional musings about software development, etc. Thu, 08 May 2008 11:04:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en Vista doesn’t connect to some websites http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2007/09/02/vista-doesnt-connect-to-some-websites/ http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2007/09/02/vista-doesnt-connect-to-some-websites/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:09:57 +0000 Stu http://www.makiwa.com/index.php/2007/09/02/vista-doesn%e2%80%99t-connect-to-some-websites/ I recently re-installed Vista and had this weird problem where I could connect to some websites, but not others. I solved the problem by explicitly setting the DNS addresses to the ones used by the router. If you are having this problem this might work for you too.

  1. In the online status page of the router configuration screen you should see the Primary and Secondary DNS addresses.

 

  1. To set those DNS settings up in Vista, go to Control Panel | “View network status and tasks”

 

  1. Then click “Manage network connections”.

 

  1. Select your network connection and choose Properties.

 

  1. Select the IPv4 binding, and click Properties.

 

  1. Finally, choose “Use the following DNS server addresses” and set the Preferred and Alternate servers to the Primary and Secondary ones obtained from the router in step 1, and press OK.

Hope this helped.

 

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