Win Xp + Dsl

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please help me out.. I'm trying to network 2 PC which is both using Win XP Home Ed, using network cross cable, however, while icq, msn and yahoo! messenger as well as outlook express work on client computer, it won't browse using the internet explorer. It will only open my ISP's website, www.pacific.net.au. nothing is wrong in host computer (able to browse and everything). please help me out. i've tried everything and i'm desperate to find some help. thanks a lot in advance

 

Can you do a nslookup to any other website. ?
etc. In command prompt type
nslookup <hotmail.com>

Does it return with the IP Address of the site

 

what should i do... the nslookup did reply with addresses but still i can't browse using the iexplorer...

 

I had this before but cant remeber how I got rid of it. It is a caching issue since by doing the nslookup you DNS resolution worksfine. Try manual going and delete your temporary Internet files from Explorer. You will propably find that some of them are set to read only....Give it ago and let me know

 

??? i don't get what you mean by "Try manual going and delete your temporary Internet files from Explorer. You will propably find that some of them are set to read only...."
i'll delete the temp internet files... but i don't get what u mean by manual going.. hehehe thanks r u online? will u be able to chat through yahoo! msg or msn to help me out? sorry bout this. thanks a lot

 

Try opening a command prompt and doing a couple of clearing operations.

arp -d *

This clears the ARP cache.

ipconfig /flushdns

This clears the DNS cache.

 

thanks for helping.. i've tried that but that doesn't work as well ((

 

What i mean by manualy is, going itno explorer and delete the from your profile. The other way of doing it is in your internet Options to clear temporary files, however I gfound in the past that that doesn't work at all times.What I meant by read only is, if a file is read only then you cant execute anything from it. So lets say your home page is set to read only, you wont beable to go from it any where else.- Enough of that now...
What is the machine IP setting and then as the machine your connecting through.
In command prompt , do a tracert to www.turners.co.nz and send me the reply.