DNS problem, nslookup works, ping doesn't

Question

I am setting up a development server in my flat. I have set up an Ubuntu DNS server on it and have added the zone weddinglist (just weddinglist - no TLD. It\'s just an internal

Answer 1

FYI - I have been struggling with this issue for the past 3 hours. tried everything, flushing DNS, using a proxy, resetting catalog using netsh and clearing the routes. nothing worked so i decided to give windows restore a try, I did it using a windows cd -> repair -> system restore and it worked ! couldnt find any solutions online so i figured id post it

Answer 2

I also had this problem on a Server 2012 R2 VM joined to my local AD domain. I eventually solved the problem by taking the VM off the domain and re-joining it.

Answer 3

I found a little bug in windows Server 2003 R2 EE. you know that when you specify your IP address in the NIC (network connections), windows tells you that if you dont specify the preferred DNS server, it will put his own ip because it is an DNS server? well it doesn't do that...

I fixed my problem writing the dns adress manually, instead of letting windows do it for me.

Answer 4

I also encountered this issue. No Windows application (except Chrome) could access the internet. I found it was a duplicate IP on the LAN. I changed the local IP, and everything, including ping, started working again.

I found the problem doing an

IPCONFIG /ALL

and it listed

IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.10.0.20(Duplicate)

Answer 5

I had this problem occasionally when using a multi-label name ie test.internal

The solution for me was to stop/start the dnscache on my windows 7 machine. Open a console as administrator and type

net stop dnscache
net start dnscache

then sigh and look for a way to get a Mac as your principal desktop.

Answer 6

I have the same issue with IIS running on my home server, on the client machine a command like ipconfig /flushdns usually solves the problem.