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DNS Problems
lodger
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I'm running Windows 11 on a 2023 Dell laptop. I recently started having trouble with connection timeouts, so I looked up troubleshooting tips, which brings me to the issue.
When I try to stop or reset the DNS client through the cmd line I get: "The requested pause, continue, or stop is not valid for this service."
When I try to do the same through the "services" app, it won't even show the stop or reset options, and if I try properties, stop and reset are greyed out.
Trying to google the solution just gets me lots of pages that say I can solve connection timeouts by resetting the DNS client. Which is the problem in the first place.
SO, how big a problem is this, and how can I actually reset or disable the DNS cache/client?
When I try to stop or reset the DNS client through the cmd line I get: "The requested pause, continue, or stop is not valid for this service."
When I try to do the same through the "services" app, it won't even show the stop or reset options, and if I try properties, stop and reset are greyed out.
Trying to google the solution just gets me lots of pages that say I can solve connection timeouts by resetting the DNS client. Which is the problem in the first place.
SO, how big a problem is this, and how can I actually reset or disable the DNS cache/client?
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Start->run->CMD
ipconfig /flushdns
you can do ipconfig /? to get all the commands.
but I'd be surprised if this fixes it. If you have a spare usb NIC to try I'd try that as a test. NIC's going bad but not dead can cause weird issues
. Rarely found the DNS to be an issue unless you're putting in the DNS statically and have it wrong. Check and see if it is static or pulled from dhcp, if static try dynamic, if dynamic try static- google's dns servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
I did have an issue ages ago after running a fix to remove a virus where we had to rebuild the tcp/ip stack using another program but failing failed virus removal I'd lean towards the NIC.