Sat, 16 Jun 07
Weird Network Failure When Windows XP Stands By
Sometimes when I hibernate or standby my windows XP box, starting it back up causes network failure. Websites couldn’t be found, ping failed, and ssh couldn’t go anywhere.
I was perplexed for a while, as restarting the wireless connection didn’t fix the problem. You actually had to restart the entire computer.
A few weeks ago I dug into the problem and realized the issue was the dns service.
To fix, just restart the dns service from a cmd window (as an administrator) like so:
net stop dnscache
net start dnscache
You should be good to go.
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Bill McIntyre said,
June 19, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Dan!
That’s brilliant. I’ve been plagued by this in a wifi-enabled laptop for ages, and thought it was simply my lot in life to forever reboot after standby.
Many thanks sir.
Bill
moore said,
June 19, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Bill, glad to be of help.
Johnson said,
August 28, 2007 at 7:34 am
Wow, thanks a ton for that. I’ve been suffering with this for some time now. Stupid microsoft, bad design.