Win98se & dialup prob - isp assigns ip - can't ping out

[jonsimms]

I'm running Win98 se on a tosh notebook - at office it connects to a win2k sbs server and has no problems with internet through LAN (ADSL connected).

When I start up and log in ex-LAN and use dial-up, connection happens ok - log on and verify etc. but IE6 bombs out saying cannot find server or DNS error.

Run winipcfg and see three PPP adapters, the second of which looks like the ISP IP details. I can see a DNS server IP and I have been assigned an IP which is the same as the default gateway. If I ping me it's ok, but if I ping the ISP/DNS server or anywhere else outside, I time out.

Interestingly the host name in the ipcfg window is my compter id for LAN networking in the form my_pc.domain.co.uk rather than anything to do with the isp?

Anyway, confused....any ideas?

 

[stiles123]

What if you try pinging by address rather than by name?

It is possible that the DNS suffix assigned by either your work DHCP server or hand configured is overriding the ISP assigned settings and your machine is trying to query a LAN DNS server rather than your ISP.

 

[jonsimms]

ty stiles123

My pinging was by address as per those shown in the ipcfg window - I didn't try names.

The work server does all the handing out so no hand config'd, but this could be something - once dialup had done its 'verify and log on' bit, my mapped drives re-tried to establish themselves - and failed. Could this be related to the host showing my_pc.ourLANdomain.co.uk rather than anything to do with v21.co.uk, the isp domain? Also the address shown for DHCP server in winipcfg is 255.255.255.255 in each case - when normally LAN'd and whend dialed-up.

My expertise (where an expert is one who has made all the possible mistakes in a narrow field) is particularly narrow in the DNS-TCP/IP-Etc arena and so I'm not really sure how I would identify and fix the LAN-ISP rivalry...any tips greatly appreciated!