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Windows 7: Internet browsers don't work' but Skype works fine

23 Jan 2012  
BoyofDestiny

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
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Internet browsers don't work' but Skype works fine

Last night my Internet suddenly crashed, and now both Internet Explorer and Firefox are unable to connect to the Internet although Skype strangely works perfectly. This makes me think it is a DNS issue but I don't know how to proceed. I have tried:

Restarting
Resetting winsock, IPv4, IPv6
dnsflush
Changing proxy settings (currently there is no proxy)
Using different connections (I am on a wired connection, although two different wireless connections get the same results)
System restore. When I first tried system restore, I chose the nearest point to restore to and was met with "The specific object was not found (0x80042308)." Clicking run system restore then resulted in "Catastrophic failure (0x8000FFFF)."
IPv4 and IPv6 are both set to automatically aquire DNS and IP
Removed Bonjour just to be safe
Took down all firewalls
Ran a full virus scan

I can ping my IP, default gateway, and DNS servers along with any other IP but I cannot ping URLs. Attempting to connect to a URL results in "Server not found" and connecting directly to an IP results in a connection time out.

I'll try to upload what I believe to be the relevant bits of my ipconfig. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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23 Jan 2012  
BoyofDestiny

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
2 posts
 
 

Here is my ipconfig screenshot, hopefully this information is helpful.
Internet browsers don't work' but Skype works fine-ipconfig.png
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24 Jan 2012  
2xg

Win7 & Win8 64bit
1,745 posts
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Welcome to Seven Forums,

edited and erased.....

Also, let's release/renew your IP's.
How to Release and Renew DHCP?

An update will be appreciated.

Last edited by 2xg; 24 Jan 2012 at 11:12 PM..
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24 Jan 2012  
Ztruker

Windows 7 Pro X64
3,616 posts
Space Coast of Florida
 
 

Sounds like a DNS problem as you can ping an IP address but not a URL. You could try using the OpenDNS servers and see if that fixes the problem.

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Try them and see if that fixes the problem. If yes then you need to contact your school IT folks and let them know you have a DNS problem.
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24 Jan 2012  
2xg

Win7 & Win8 64bit
1,745 posts
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Good eye on the .edu on the output, I have overlooked it.

Yes, I agree that Open DNS's might work.
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