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How to switch between DNS suffixes using CMD (netshell)?
at my job, I have to manually switch between:
1) append primary and connection specific DNS suffixes and
2) Append parent suffixes of the primary DNS suffix
a bunch of times per day (due to a ...
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Why is 'ping' unable to resolve a name when 'nslookup' works fine?
On my Windows XP workstation, I can find the machine I want to connect to in DNS with nslookup:
nslookup wolfman
Server: dns.company.com
Address: 192.168.1.38
Name: wolfman.company.com
Address: 192....
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Windows 10 can't connect with any browser except Tor
About two weeks ago I started having connectivity issues on my Windows 10 machine. Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Steam will fail to connect to a site in nine out of ten attempts. Tor Browser has no ...
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New to Active Domain/Windows DNS, using pfSense resolver for external DNS and routing?
I have some questions about setting up Active Domain with pfSense. I'm pretty new to this and I haven't found any posts specifically dealing with these questions, and I've been scouring for hours.
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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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Windows 10 VPN is not using DNS suffix in lookups
Our VPN is configured to send the domain-name-server and domain-search parameters from our DHCP server to connected clients.
However, we've been experiencing issues with the domain name resolution - ...
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Changing DNS on IPv4 vs IPv6
I want to change my default DNS to Google DNS.
Many sites like streamble.com are blocked in my default service provider DNS. After some research I found that, if we switch to Google DNS, we can ...
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Nslookup on new Windows Server (localhost)
What do I do if I only get "localhost" "127.0.0.1" when I type in nslookup in cmd. I want another server to show up when typing this command.
I already included a Reverse-Lookup-...
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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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Can DHCP provide DNS addresses when IP is static?
In Windows, when I select static IP (instead of DHCP-assigned one) I have to enter the IP address for DNS servers. Is there a way to manually set IP address yet obtain the DNS addresses from the DHCP ...
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