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Why are Microsoft based programs unable to resolve host names?

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Mar 15, 20262115 views
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Problem

When I go to Google by IP I get: When I go to Google by domain name I get: This is confirmed by Windows Live Messenger: However, Firefox just works fine: When I do a DNS lookup I get this result: However, pinging fails by name (but works by IP): These are my settings, which look correct to me: I ha…

Error Output

C:\Windows\system32>nslookup google.com
Server:  google-public-dns-b.google.com
Address:  8.8.4.4

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    google.com
Addr…

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So, I researched half a day for solutions for all the errors I saw occurring. Nothing worked! As configuration is stored in the registry, I decided to do a rollback. But how? I first looked up what the Failed Control Set registry key was, because fa…

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