Well, you could try this, if you haven't already; that is, type in Command
Prompt, as Administrator,
ipconfig /flushdns
to flush the DNS resolver cache. Sometimes a bad DNS entry will be cached,
and you will need to either flush the DNS cache to get rid of it, or wait up
to 24 hours for it to be dropped from the cache automatically.
"Pete d'Oronzio [pdmagic]" <myfirstname@pdmagic.com> wrote in message
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> dean-dean wrote:
>
>> Is this the article you saw? It might be relevant:
>>
>> Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or
>> from certain non-Microsoft DHCP servers->
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us
>>
>
>
> Thank you so much for locating this. I don't know why I couldn't
> find it again. Yes, this is the article.
>
> I tried making that registry change, and rebooting and trying again.
> Didn't help though.
>
> I've had it pointed out to me that *all* the resources that I can't
> get to (90% of the time) are located on addresses like
> i2.microsoft.com. They all resolve back to an address at akamai.net.
> (i.e. a1475.g.akamai.net)
>
> My dns sometimes finds this address, sometimes doesn't. My ISP also
> points out that the TTL on these alias entries is something like 30
> seconds and require 4 hops to resolve.
>
> I don't know if this gets me anywhere, but doing a search on
> "akamai.net dns problem" gets me a lot more useful hits than anything
> else I've tried.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> -Pete