networking fails when DNS servers are specified manualy
- by Matthew Scouten
When I let Windows-7 use DHCP to find its own DNS server, everything works fine.
Then I use ipconfig to get the IPs of the DNS servers in question, and specify them manually. Now the network stops working.
(I need to do this because my next step is to restore the router that is going to lie about the proper DNS server. Don't ask why, it is required by my father's work. The IT there are not exactly on the ball.)
Why would this make a difference? It is the same set of servers, just obtained differently.