>
> I've had the exact same issue on two computers and until I read this
> form it didn't occur to me it might have to do with SP3. I had just
> deployed SP2 & SP3 via group policy to over 40 PCs at my clients
> location while joining all of their computers to the new active
> directory network.
>
> Basically, unless I use nslookup, DNS doesn't work. This includes
> Firefox, Internet Explorer, as well as internal active directory lookups
> to authenticate usernames and passwords against the domain. Noone could
> log on to the computer as a domain user - had to logon as local admin to
> work on it.
>
> This means I could, say, "nslookup myserver.mydomain.local", get the
> IP, and then manually ping the IP and get a reply.
> However, if I said "ping myserver.mydomain.local" it would say "Ping
> request could not find host myserver.mydomain.local. Please check the
> name and try again."
>
> To me, basically this means nslookup can query because it simply opens
> a winsock connection on the DNS port and gets a query itself, whereas
> ping, IE, Firefox, and Windows itself for active directory domain
> authentication all cannot since they use the DNS Client service.
>
> I had this same problem on now two computers. The first one, which I
> worked on earlier this week, I ended up formatting the computer to fix.
> I tried specifying a static IP & DNS instead of using DHCP.
> I tried uninstalling/reinstalling the network adapter.
> I checked the Winsock using LSPFix to make sure there weren't any files
> missing or malware.
> I checked hijackthis log for other malware - all clean.
> I tried resetting all of the registry entries for the TCP/IP stack
> using "netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt"
>
> Now that I realized SP3 might be involved, I checked this second
> computer where the problem just surfaced - and sure enough - it still
> has SP2 listed in under System Properties, but SP3 is in the list of
> Add/Remove programs. I went ahead and uninstalled SP3 (which took like
> 5 seconds.. kind of wierd) and it had no affect on the problem. I'm
> going to try to reinstall SP3 and see if it corrects the problem.
>
> Both machines were Acer, if that makes a difference. You never know..
> it might be some of the crap software they preload on it.
>
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