All Questions
387
questions
4
votes
1
answer
889
views
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 ...
- 55
0
votes
0
answers
32
views
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 ...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
29
views
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). ...
-1
votes
1
answer
286
views
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 ...
- 921
-1
votes
1
answer
194
views
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 ...
0
votes
2
answers
109
views
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 ...
- 145
0
votes
0
answers
93
views
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 ...
- 450
0
votes
0
answers
129
views
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'...
1
vote
0
answers
167
views
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 ...
1
vote
0
answers
121
views
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....
- 43
0
votes
1
answer
902
views
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):
...
- 1
0
votes
1
answer
529
views
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 ...
- 145
0
votes
1
answer
945
views
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 ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
54
views
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 ...
- 3,516
1
vote
0
answers
384
views
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 ...
- 11