could not log back in last night

[Ravenschylde]

fucking ISP dropped me in the middle of raid last night, and I couldn't log back in. Lost all DNS lookup capabilities, too - no web pages, etc. Rebooting cablemodem or my router didn't help, neither did bypassing my router.

Wondering if I got hit with any kind of weird virus. Since I've got net here at work, I'm going to pull down some other checkers and mebbe the tcp stack fix thing. Anyone got any suggestions on other things to check? I get an IP fine from the DHCP server, but no DNS resolution.

I guess I'm SoL until I can get this resolved. I'm just praying a reinstall isn't required - such a PITA. ;_;

[Darkhealer]

Sad meww, you need to kill your isp company +(

[Ravenschylde]

I should have taken the advice of whomever said it, to scream at my ISP until they really checked things out. :(

[Joel]

Assuming it's XP, you could try resetting the network stack with the following command.

netsh int ip reset c:\resetlog.txt

It's the equivlaent of reinstalling TCP/IP, only takes a second or two, and has been known to clear up issues of this sort. When the command succeeds it does not echo any output back.

[Ravenschylde]

that was the ticket, actually. but I managed to get it taken care of with some handy fixit program thingy I downloaded off one of the many geek sites online. I like your solution, much more elegant. I've added it to my little list of fix things I keep around. Thanks!