DNS didn't work until reboot

Does anyone know why my DNS just stopped working? Im on Windows 7.

I know it was the DNS because google wouldnt work via google.com, but would work via IP.

I tried ipconfig /flushdns and that didnt work but, a simple reboot of windows and the DNS was working again.

But what I found weird is, when I did an ipconfig, nothing came up but "windows config".

Then when I did an ipconfig /all only the regular first four lines came up that come up at the top with host name and stuff.

Anyone know what just happen and why?

Thanks.

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earweed

Is this a home setup or a work PC in a domain? Could have just been your ISP having a hiccup or if in a work environment the same thing. It may have just been a coincidence that you caught it at a time when the DNS servers were all doing some sort of update or something.

Devilsbane

Did the service get stopped?

Hyper-Me

Sounds like a random windows network stack fluke.

A lot of the time when clients are having weird inexplicable network occurances on one machine. a simple 'netsh winsock reset' and reboot works magic.

pLuhhmm

earweed wrote: »

Is this a home setup or a work PC in a domain? Could have just been your ISP having a hiccup or if in a work environment the same thing. It may have just been a coincidence that you caught it at a time when the DNS servers were all doing some sort of update or something.

Its a home network. I have no clue. I just know it was DNS related. Oh well.