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How to know when the last dns flush took place?
I'm on a Windows 10 machine and trying desperately to see when the last DNS flush took place. I know you can look at the TTL in a displaydns but is there no event that shows when the system last did a ...
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Why is my Windows laptop not querying local DNS server?
I have a local PowerDNS server on a Linux box. I can access it fine on my Windows laptop under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). dig @main probitas returns the expected address. ping probitas and ...
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User's PC have 2 different IP in the same DHCP network
I currently have an issue with a user on Active Directory where their PC have 2 different IP address but in the same DHCP network (ex: IP 1: 192.168.1.10, IP 2: 192.168.1.11), gateway: 192.168.1.1). ...
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how to block http://tplinkwifi.net/ url
let's say we are on windows 7, and we want to block a specific URL from getting resolved. one would assume to throw it into HOSTS file and job is done, but for some reason this does not work, so the ...
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Set wsl2 to use host nameserver
I'm using wsl2 on Windows 11, and I recently encountered a problem where when I change networks, the wsl2 dns (nameserver at resolve.conf) address doesn't update, to match, and there for cannot lookup ...
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Can't configure Windows to reply me with proper IP address from ping utility
I have a problem with my OS. The ping utility is returning me wrong IP address when I try to ping local hostname server.
On my server I have 3 interfaces:
Ethernet0,
Ethernet1,
Ethernet2
The primary ...
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Why is windows 11 sending conventional DNS requests after enabling DNS-over-Https?
I enabled DOH on my Wi-Fi. It works. But using Wireshark, I still see explicit DNS requests and see the DNS server refusing the requests.
Why is this happening, and what's the meaning of DOH to ...
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How do I block range of incoming IPs in Windows Advanced Firewall
On Windows Server 2022 I am trying to block an IP range from
168.228.0.0 to 168.228.0.255
So having researched I came up with this:
168.228.0.0/16
However I am still getting DNS queries from random IP'...
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Disable Windows DNS search domain / set to `.`
I use a resolver that responds with records on bare TLDs aka dotless domains - will add some info on why below if you're curious, but it's not related to the issue.
On Linux, it's possible to do so by ...
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DNS drops out/fails regularly for no reason in Windows 11
Device: HP laptop, Windows 11.
Laptop's onboard Wi-Fi hardware is non-functional. External USB dongle is used instead (ASUS USB-AC53 Wi-Fi).
From time to time Wi-Fi connectivity drops for web-browsers....
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Unknown entry in Hosts file (Windows) for geoip.pango-paas.co
I was going to add an entry in Hosts file to make it easy to connect with a server. But when I opened the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts , I saw an entry for (changed the real ip to xx below):
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How to properly modify host file?
I was able to modify my host file on my Windows 10 laptop by copying it onto my desktop, modifying it and then pasting it back to the system32/drivers/etc folder. I'm doing this to prevent me from ...
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Docker desktop is failing DNS lookup on both Windows and Mac
I have three machines on the same network (simple, home one with BT router) Windows, Mac and Linux. The first two, running Docker Desktop (4.23.0) exhibit this issue, while the Linux one (running ...
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Website refuses to load, but works fine everywhere else. SSL Certificate related
I have a computer which has stopped connecting to a website.
Normally this computer would just get rebuilt with the standard image we have for the computer, but there's a lot of bespoke software which ...
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No internet connection, can't flush dns
I can't connect to the internet, I tried these commands, but none of them are working..
What's weird, is that when I wait around 10 minutes, the internet hops back, but the commands are still not ...
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Couldn't solve hostname for single host from my PC - ping not working
I can't reach another machine from my PC anymore, while other PCs can; I can't understand the problem, something got broken on my PC about DNS or something else.
Some more details:
The target host is ...
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External DNS Server
I have a network and I want to setup an external DNS server. Here is my idea:
The workstations on LAN make DNS queries to the Domain Controller which is my internal DNS server and the Domain ...
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What are the host names of Microsoft's Diagnostic Collection servers?
I'd like to point them to localhost in my hosts file.
Specifically, the list should cover all servers utilized by:
Required Diagnostic Data
Optional Diagnostics Data
Windows Feedback
Edge Diagnostic ...
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Which Windows apps use the "DNS client" service?
I'm thinking of Windows 10/11.
Which Windows 10 apps use the "DNS client" service?
I guess Windows apps like browsers, mail clients, etc have their own DNS clients (also called "stub ...
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Access a network machine with ip address but not with the name?
In the File Explorer in can access the machine with ip address \10.xxx.xx.xx but cant access it at \hostname. I have two machines that have this issue.
Both the machines are on LAN. They have static ...
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ActiveDirectory: Can I manually change the DNS records of the domain controllers within an AD domain?
I got some ActiveDirectory DNS issue I hope I can resolve with your help. (The IPs and subnets below are only examples, not the real ones)
DC partner.com [192.168.1.1] <-- NAT 0:65535 --> ...
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Disallow access to browser security setting - Use Secure DNS
I am looking to set up parental controls across my Windows machines and at the network level.
As part of this step, I had already established restrictions at the router level through a custom DNS.
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Why can I no longer connect to SQL Server from another PC on my local network?
Why has a SQL Server client stopped connecting to SQL Server running on another node on my local network?
This has been working correctly for a long time. The client PC (PC A) was connecting two days ...
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How to enable DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in group policy on Windows 11?
I am trying to enable DNS over HTTPS on my personal Windows 11 (Build 22621.1105) machine (Lenovo ThinkPad). I am the only user account on this machine (MS Account, Admin).
In the settings for the DNS ...
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Computer cannot resolve Firebase domain
I am currently debugging a chrome extension that I wrote, which uses Google Firebase for its authentication and its realtime database. Now, the extension is already distributed to a number of people, ...
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Windows DNS - force local DNS lookup for local domain when using VPN
I have a home network that uses an internal subdomain of a domain that I own, int.example.com. The DNS servers on this network are a pair of Raspberry Pis running Pihole, which refer lookups for *.int....
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Can I look up DNS A records through ldap?
I am trying to gather our domain controllers host A records remotely.
I am able to use ldapsearch to gather lots of info about the schema, computers, and users. But I cant seem to find where the A ...
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How to do split DNS with Wireguard on Windows
I want to achieve 'split DNS' using Wireguard on Windows, where DNS requests for specific domains are resolved by specific DNS servers reachable through the Wireguard tunnel, and other DNS requests ...
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Windows 11 always try to use DNS setting from a uninstalled network adapter
I have a laptop which is brought to the office and then back home every day.
When I'm sitting in the office, I use a dock with a wired ethernet connection. I have a manually configured gateway & ...
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How to refresh Windows DNS A and NS records
When I deleted the NS records for a domain I could see the changes pretty quickly with the host command on a Linux VM running on a Windows 11 host:
$ host -t ns example.com
example.com has no NS ...
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Resolution of specific domains is not attempted
Background: after an extended session of network testing (including crafting packets and changing the interface settings (the IP4 ones, not the hardware)) I have a situation I have never encountered ...
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As a user on a VPN how do I control which server a DNS request goes to
I work from home using a Windows 10 machine. It's connected to the company network using Forticlient SSL VPN. This uses split tunneling so only certain traffic is routed over the VPN. However, it sets ...
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Images from Fantart.tv not showing up in my emby media server
Found this error in the Emby logs.
System.Net.Http.HttpRequestException: The requested address is not valid in its context. (webservice.fanart.tv:443)
Four days ago I asked this question on the Emby ...
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Why is there no TTL in the output of the Ping Localhost command while it present in Ping 127.0.1`s output?
Using cmd and ping on Windows gave me the following results:
Pinging "localhost":
Pinging "127.0.0.1" (loopback address):
I read some of the previous post to understand why ...
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Windows clients are not resolving internal hostnames using dnsmasq
Setup
There are at minimum 3 devices involved in my setup:
raspberry pi: This has dnsmasq configured and is intended solely to function as a DNS server for my LAN, should I choose to use it instead ...
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Is it possible and worth it to create a DNS server + Cache on windows 10 and cache everything? [closed]
I was wondering if it's possible and logical to create a DNS server/cache inside Windows 10 (maybe by using wsl). So when I search twitter.com, for example, it doesn't go to Google or Cloudflare ...
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Open web application hosted locally on Windows from local network
I have a dev machine with Windows 11 where I run a web application. I use a custom domain to address it, i.e. I have put the following lines in the hosts file
127.0.0.1 myapptest.com
127.0.0.1 sub....
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Windows not returning any IPv6 address in DNS lookup
My DNS contains two records for ServerA:
an A record with its IPv4 address: 10.25.46.130
an AAAA record with its IPv6 address: fda8:6c3:ce53:a890::55
I am not able to get my SimpleClient.java ...
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why does it take chrome two minutes to pick up that a domain has been specified/blocked in the hosts file, and can that time be decreased a lot?
I'm specifying certain domains in my hosts file to block them. So redirecting a domain to 127.0.0.1 when i'm not running any web server on 127.0.0.1 will block that domain.
why does it take chrome two ...
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Is there a way to detect when a domain is caught by the Hosts file?
On Windows, I use the etc/hosts file to block some domains, for example because they are often used to serve ads. But sometimes, a program tries to connect to a blocked domain for a legitimate reason ...
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My computers internet hasnt been working correctly
My computer Internet has been acting weird this week. The first time I noticed this was when I opened a program and it show me a cryptic error message and some images where not loading. Then when I ...
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Ubuntu App for Windows sporadically gets a “Temporary Failure in Name Resolution” error
I have the Ubuntu app for Windows (downloaded from the Microsoft store) and I keep getting a temporary failure in name resolution error.
ping: google.com: Temporary failure in name resolution
This ...
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Setting predefined TTL for DNS 'A' Records on Windows DNS Server
So I have a lab with a DC running a DNS Server.
I was wondering if there's a way to set TTL values for 'A' - type DNS records before they are created.
For example, if execute ping www.google.com, the ...
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DNS entry works in linux but not on windows - dnsmasq
I have dnsmasq setup to serve some home domain names, things like mqtt, node-red and so on to make managing my home network easier. I have it setup and working fine - except on windows...
My hosts ...
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Ping WSL2 by hostname from Windows
After launching a WSL Kali instance, I can ping it by IP
from a Windows console, like this:
ping 172.31.37.123
but ... how can I ping by name?
I already changed the WSL hostname in /etc/hostname,
but ...
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How to set specific URLs to use VPN connection for DNS (Windows)?
I have a PPTP VPN connection named "myvpn"
PPP adapter myvpn:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : 4274:35b2:be80::b4d3:97b0%65
IPv4 Address. . . ...
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Only one device can't reach website on my home network
I have multiple devices in my home network, Windows 10/11, Android, iPhone. And one of them a Dell XPS 7590 laptop with Windows 11 can’t reach out to code.jquery.com which results in multiple websites ...
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Windows cannot resolve a CNAME records in bind
In linux I use bind - version: 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.5 -
configured in such a way that 2 host names share the same IP address.
The 2 host names are server2 and server3 and they must ...
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Windows knows IP address of a host, and at the same time doesn't know it
I have a DNS server in my home network. Most of the time, Windows 10 (fully up to date) uses this DNS server and has no problem resolving names. Occasionally though, I get this problem:
C:\Users\...
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Website not loading in my device but works in other device
My website (https://wikifox.ml) is working fine in my cell phone but not working in my PC, It is showing like this (DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN)
I tried clearing DNS cache using the below command and ...
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