Browser needs to refresh to resolve domain names.

May 29, 2006 10:32 AM

Laptop can't resolve the domain name when I first type it in, but it does upon refresh.

What the hell is the deal? In the past week it wasnt resolving any domain names that didn't end in ".com", now for all domain names it's resolving them, but only after I refresh (or hit "try again" in firefox). I've researching on the internet, but didn't find anything satisfactory..just a few issues related to BIND on BSD. Anybody have any suggestions?

The only thing that happened about the same time is my trial version of "Spy Sweeper" ran out. OK, fine..but how do I fix it?

posted by taumeson to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Try disabling the "DNS client" service and see if it helps.
posted by Sharcho at 10:42 AM on May 29, 2006

If you are running Windows XP SP2, do this:

Open a command prompt (start menu/all programs/accessories/command prompt) - in the command prompt, enter the command

netsh winsock reset

Restart.
posted by disclaimer at 12:04 PM on May 29, 2006

My offhand guess is that this is some sort of timeout issue, where the DNS is responding slowly. The information is coming back, but not soon enough to make the first request succeed. However, it's being cached and so the second request gets the answer within the timeout period.

But I'm no expert in this particular area.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 3:01 PM on May 29, 2006