DNS name resolveing

This problem is really bugging me, and it's only through IE as well, we have a few intranet web server, if I try to connect to them by their DNS name it bombs me out, with the usual web page not found message, if I connect via the ip address no prob, but this is stopping me using compaq's insight manager and the like and i've try everything I can think of, the DNS servers are setup in the network settings and we're also using DHCP, i'm using XP pro on a 100mb lan, any ideas? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

For what it's worth, this is happening to us with Win2k AdvServer $ Pro. I've found that doing a ipconfig release/renew on the workstation usually does the trick (assuming you're using DHCP). It's as if the workstation's DNS entry on the server is expiring or something. Kinda sucks in that I had everyone's start page pointed to our intranet URL and had to have them change it to our 10. address. No rhyme or reason.

This has to be a bug or at least a common setup problem with 2k & XP. I'm guessing it's a 2k server issue (I've heard from consultants that MS DNS sucks butt).

I've been getting a similar issue with 2k server.. IE seems to not connect, if i hit refresh often enough it works. In this case, I'm not using DNS server, just ISA proxy.. Now when i connect my laptop through the server, it never has an issue (xp pro). I'm going to try setting up DNS to see if it fixes my issue. I'm also running IE 5.5 on the server.

Is your internal DNS server a 2k server? It sounds like you are not able to query DNS for internal address correctly. You should enable dynamic updates in DNS. Also your DNS zone should be active directory integrated. I would also check to see if the proper PTR record is in DNS for that server you are having trouble with. Also on the DHCP server you should enable automatic upating of DNS. When you have done all these things come back and tell me if you are still experiencing the issue.

I WISH I knew how to do those things or what they specifally meant! Know of any good tutorials that would help with doing them? I've found the MS DNS white paper, but looks a little dense (surprise!). :eek: I haven't had that MCSE class yet.

Thank for your input guy, I've try release/renew but to no avail, but the problem doesn't lie with the network in general, it's IE6, our DNS/WINS Servers are NT4 and R working OK, as we find it the most reliable, sorry but M$ sucks big time, I've even uninstalled it for what its worth, and installed 5.5, but you know what m$ product are like for cleaning up after themselves..... :(

Have you tried using the full dns name when you put it in the browser are are you using only the hostname?

I've noticed in nslookup that when I try to resolve by hostname only, I get a server not found error. When I search by full dns name it resolves. My DNS is running on 2000.