Weird Networking Problem

[Diesel]

My network currently consists of the following:
Win2k Server serving dial-up connection via ICS
Win2k Pro box that I use as my workstation
WinME box that my girlfriend uses
various other machines connected for no apparent reason

Up until today, everything had been working fine.
The dial-up connection had been connected for about 31 hours, and I suddenly couldn't connect to Alien Soup. I couldn't even ping the site. I'd get a Host Unknown, meaning that there was no DNS resolution. However, I could ping Alien Soup from the server.

Keep in mind that no configuration changes or reboots had taken place. One hour, I was able to DNS resolve www.aliensoup.com, the next hour, I couldn't.
Also keep in mind that I'm able to get DNS resolution for every website other than Alien Soup, as well as email, telnet, and Usenet. IOW, this is only happening with Alien Soup. It's like the Pro box will no longer check DNS for Alien Soup.

Upon manually setting my local network settings on the Win2k Pro box to use my ISPs DNS servers for DNS instead of getting the DNS settings via DHCP, it fixed the problem. But does anyone have any idea why it would have spontaneously broken like that?


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[JHowse]

I would just say that it was not finding DHCP...but that doesn't make since given that Alien Soup was the only one down.

Interesting point about that. I had a similar problem of not getting to the soup, but DNS was resolving. I was just not getting to the interserver host, at all. Tracert verified the problem as it being at the interserver host. I was able to get back on, last night, so I don't know. Bear in mind that I also was able to reach other sites.

Could it be that the IP you were using was a banned IP that you randomly hit (grasping at straws)?

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[Diesel]

JH&gt; It's getting DHCP because I still had total connectivity to the Net, just to Alien Soup. I also had connectivity to my home network, which is getting DHCP from the same server.
I thought about the banned IP part, but that would just prevent someone from posting, not prevent them from viewing the site, right?

Even so, my IP never changed.

Honestly, I'm totally stumped by this.

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[JHowse]

I've wondered about the banned IP part, too, but that seems right about the viewing and not posting part. I don't know, either. I'd be curious to know.

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[Alien]

Never did answer this... If an ip is banned, the end user will recieve a message about being banned. The site won't look unreachable, you just won't be able to look around the forums without recieving the notice.

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