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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Got the little devil

Urban-cub's laptop has been misbehaving for about 10 days. It's previously robust network behaviour suddenly failed and neith Urban-cub nor the Gorse Fox could remedy the situation.

Gorse Fox does not like to be beaten so he decided to try again... and if all else failed to re-install. Well for a long time it looked like all else had failed. He had managed to get successful network connectivity to the other computers around the house but could not get out to the internet. His first inclination was that we had a firewall problem - but after finally tracking down all of the various logs and checking them, it became clear that nothing unusual was being blocked for this machine. Eventually he started digging deeper and deeper into the various setting and eventually found some dedicated DNS addresses identified in the TCP/IP settings. Resetting these to "automatic" solved the problem and everything burst back into life.

GF heaved a sigh of relief... and, no doubt, so will Urban-cub when she wakes up! (Bit of a late night, you see)

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