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Hi Chuck -
I've wrestled with this one for a while with no luck and wondered if anyone else had seen this behavior. We have multiple PC's at home and we have one that is exhibiting this behavior. You fire up Mozilla or Internet Explorer and try to go to a website, and it doesn't matter which one, you will get the "site not found" message. You can press Enter to get it to go away and click on Go multiple times in rabid succession and eventually it will find it - most of the time. Sometimes it will flat out not find it when the site is FINE one of the other PC's. I've found in Mozilla, if you right click and tell it to open a link in a new tab, that will work - most of the time.
It may be that IPv6 addresses are being requested. Some name servers do not properly handle these requests. It may be that the one PC has IPv6 enabled and the others don't.
Unless you need it, turn off IPv6 capability in the operating system (don't ask me how).
You can turn off IPv6 lookups in Firefox (and possibly other Mozilla browers) by entering about:config in the address box. Enter dns as the filter. Change network.dns.disableIPv6 from false to true.
Ken http://www.ke9nr.net/Opinions expressed are my own and do not necessarily represent the views of my employer or anyone in their right mind.
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