dns settings from acronis backup?

[bounce]

I'm using win7 and need to find out what my DNS servers are. I know about the cmd ipconfig/all but they aren't listed in there and they also are not listed in my routers page.

I have a backup image (acronis .tib) of xp that they were set up correctly in, but what folder would the ctrl panel and dns settings be in inside a backup?

Normally I'd just call the cable company for these, but it's not under my name and I'm the only one here for the holidays. Thanks for any help

 

[seekermeister]

DNS is usually assigned dynamically for your ISP, thus left blank. If you have a specific address for DNS that you want to use, just entered it yourself within your connection's properties.

 

[bounce]

Hi, yeah I'm aware DNS are assigned automatically, but I need to find out what they are to forward some ports. Comcast won't release them to me since I'm not the account owner (roommate is) . I'm guessing the DNS numbers would be stored in my old acronis XP backup before I installed win7.
I can mount that backup image, but how can you navigate to the control panel TCP/IP settings in a backup image of old XP C: drive ?

 

[Tews]

Wouldnt it be easier to have your roommate get the settings?

 

[bounce]

of course it would, but roommate is out of the country. Is there not a place that DNS numbers are saved in a cloned image? thanks

 

[Tews]

Try this from a command window

ipconfig /all

 

[bounce]

I'm using win7 and need to find out what my DNS servers are. I know about the cmd ipconfig/all but they aren't listed in there and they also are not listed in my routers page.

I have a backup image (acronis .tib) of xp that they were set up correctly in, but what folder would the ctrl panel and dns settings be in inside a backup?

Normally I'd just call the cable company for these, but it's not under my name and I'm the only one here for the holidays. Thanks for any help

I know about the ip/config as in first post, but I need to find them from inside a backup image. Where in the cloned c: drive would they be? thanks

 

[seekermeister]

I'm not certain whether Acronis would have saved that setting or not. If it did, I have no idea of where it would be within the image.

 

[aem]

Are all your setting set to auto detect? How are u connecting to the ISP?

 

[bounce]

Are all your setting set to auto detect? How are u connecting to the ISP?

Yes, all are on auto-detect.

 

[aem]

Can you provide your ipconfig /all details?

 

[bounce]

sure:

Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-1A-6B-6A-D5-40
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::d475:6bb:1bbc:bcb6%11(Preferred)
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.2(Preferred)
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, December 24, 2009 7:39:48 PM
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, December 26, 2009 7:39:48 AM
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1
DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 234887787
DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-12-88-E9-2A-00-1A-6B-6A-D5-40

DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.0.1
NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled

 

[aem]

That is a very weird looking IP (10.0.0.2), are u sure it's valid? You don't have "Connection-specific DNS suffix", should also be given from your ISP. it's not listed?.

 

[bounce]

Hello, nope that's it. I'm not a novice at the networking side of things and likely the only way to find them out is from the ISP, which as mentioned before I can't right now.
I'm mostly curious where these settings are stored in a cloned image file? I have a backup image where they were correct in... That's my best bet, unless someone has a non-standard creative way of figuring them out (they aren't in the router settings page either)

 

[aem]

Well if you able to extract that clone image, see how you go with the event logs found in
C:\windows\system32\winevt\*.evtx

 

[bounce]

strange, I mounted the "XP" backup image and was able to navigate to the C:\windows\system32\ but the folder and file winevt\*.evtx aren't in there.

 

[aem]

I had this idea of advising you to google for these dns entries (or ip) back earlier but didnt want to say. Now would be the time i recon. Just google for the isp's dns info.

 

[bounce]

actually have that sitting right up in my bookmarks from a couple days ago. The DNS numbers didn't work, so I figured it was on an outdated webpage.

Not sure it was outdated now as DNS : Default looks like it's straight from Comcast, so maybe something else is wrong here.

Just wanted to see how it was all configured in the backup as that's when it was all working properly (before installing win7)

Thanks for the tips though, and seasons greetings to you.