AT&T Midwest → Re: Can't access Google domains.

can you ping or traceroute to them?

Can't ping or traceroute to them. I've tried flushing the DNS cache to no avail.

ok, whats the first 3 octets of your IP?

Not at home now (working at a t-mobile hotspot -- in part so I could check my gmail) but will get back to you later today.

Thanks for your help. Problem has persisted now for at least five days.

IP address = 68.252.246.xxx

Don't know if results from nslookup google.com are useful, but, if so, here they are.

Server: dnsr1.sbcglobal.net
Address: 68.94.156.1

Name: google.com
Addresses: 72.14.207.99, 64.233.187.99, 64.233.167.99

Ok, that's rback2.chcgil.sbcglobal.net...I just logged in and got an IP in the same pool as you.

ip address 68.252.254.228 (applied)

I had no issues surfing to google, google news, or blogspot. i even just logged into my gmail for the heck of it.

Whatever the problem is, it's not AT&T

You are right. I just tried a friend's laptop. Connecting through the same wireless router, the friend's laptop can connect to (and ping) google. My laptop, as well as my wife's, cannot.

I can't find any differences in the settings. If the problem were limited to web access, I would suspect a setting in the browser, but the fact that ping works on one computer but not the other has me mystified.

Any ideas?

**Edited with One additional data point**
ipconfig /all on my wife's machine and mine both have a "host name" and "primary dns suffix" that seem to be set through work.

Friend's computer does not.

Could this be the problem?

Could be. I don't think that I have ever seen a "Primary Dns Suffix" field populated for home users. I believe it has something to do with running a local DNS server on a LAN. The "Primary Dns Suffix" could also be related VPN, I expect...

Mine looks like this:

C:\Documents and Settings\Norman>ipconfig -all
 
Windows IP Configuration
 
        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : KOZUE
        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : aosake.net
 
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
 
        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . : aosake.net
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-17-31-C6-CC-63
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.102.34
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.102.1
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.102.1
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Monday, September 10, 2007 20:53:15
        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Thursday, September 13, 2007 20:53:15
 

AFAIK, there will always be a "Host Name"; equal to whatever you named the computer when you set up the LAN (NetBIOS name).