Praises all!
I've heard nothing but the best about this community, I hope you’ll be able to help me.
The problem I’m having was already posted and solved on a few support forums, but please stay till the end, ‘cause not one of those solutions helped me.
It's win7, DSL cable modem, no router. error messages are: "DNS server is not responding", "cable is not properly connected" and sometimes it's something about the dynamic address, but this is rare so I can't remember exactly.
It is the old “endless modem restarting” business after getting a message “DNS server is not responding” and I’m telling you none of the aforementioned solutions resolved this (including disabling the “Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter“, well, I didn't disable it ‘cause I don’t have it in Device Manager (with hidden devices turned on, of course)).
Does anyone know if a fix has been found for people in my situation? i.e. If you don’t have a Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter, and DNS flushing does not work. (And the most difficult part is I have to do this on my own, I can't rely on ISP help desk)
DON'T READ the following unless you need to know everything I tried:
...led me to the most common solution to "DNS server is not responding" issue (at least judging by the number of people who solved their problem this way) in form of a rather easy and simple exercise of uninstalling Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter in your Device Manager (you have to enable the "show hidden devices" option in view).
However, life usually doesn't work that simple for me, as I don't have "Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter". I do have alarmingly many miniports for my standards (about 8 of them), but that's probably me.
So I went on to flush DNS in cmd, to no avail.
I tried to enter my MAC address into the modem (the pass-through feature, or the bypass NAT feature, whatever you like)
I tried using open DNS, but it changes nothing.
I tried finding the PID of the service that sends to many requests, hoping that, if this crashes my Net, I could disable it. One PID pointed to a trojan tonjaa.exe and I thought "great", I kill the trojan and it stops demanding too much of my modem. I installed a few of the top rootkit killers and they found nothing. In the end PID was not that of a trojan.
It seems to me that DNS servers names weren't correct in my static IP address. But, as I once said, it's no use asking my ISP anything, so I tried to obtain them via ipconfig /all. I just entered what I found under DNS.
Lastly, I went on to hard coding the MAC address into the adapter settings, taking the advice of a Microsoft MVP. But the downside to this is that it doesn't go with the static IP. It uses open DNS. And it didn’t work. The same amount of error messages I get after trying this.
gettingold
I've heard nothing but the best about this community, I hope you’ll be able to help me.
The problem I’m having was already posted and solved on a few support forums, but please stay till the end, ‘cause not one of those solutions helped me.
It's win7, DSL cable modem, no router. error messages are: "DNS server is not responding", "cable is not properly connected" and sometimes it's something about the dynamic address, but this is rare so I can't remember exactly.
It is the old “endless modem restarting” business after getting a message “DNS server is not responding” and I’m telling you none of the aforementioned solutions resolved this (including disabling the “Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter“, well, I didn't disable it ‘cause I don’t have it in Device Manager (with hidden devices turned on, of course)).
Does anyone know if a fix has been found for people in my situation? i.e. If you don’t have a Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter, and DNS flushing does not work. (And the most difficult part is I have to do this on my own, I can't rely on ISP help desk)
DON'T READ the following unless you need to know everything I tried:
...led me to the most common solution to "DNS server is not responding" issue (at least judging by the number of people who solved their problem this way) in form of a rather easy and simple exercise of uninstalling Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter in your Device Manager (you have to enable the "show hidden devices" option in view).
However, life usually doesn't work that simple for me, as I don't have "Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter". I do have alarmingly many miniports for my standards (about 8 of them), but that's probably me.
So I went on to flush DNS in cmd, to no avail.
I tried to enter my MAC address into the modem (the pass-through feature, or the bypass NAT feature, whatever you like)
I tried using open DNS, but it changes nothing.
I tried finding the PID of the service that sends to many requests, hoping that, if this crashes my Net, I could disable it. One PID pointed to a trojan tonjaa.exe and I thought "great", I kill the trojan and it stops demanding too much of my modem. I installed a few of the top rootkit killers and they found nothing. In the end PID was not that of a trojan.
It seems to me that DNS servers names weren't correct in my static IP address. But, as I once said, it's no use asking my ISP anything, so I tried to obtain them via ipconfig /all. I just entered what I found under DNS.
Lastly, I went on to hard coding the MAC address into the adapter settings, taking the advice of a Microsoft MVP. But the downside to this is that it doesn't go with the static IP. It uses open DNS. And it didn’t work. The same amount of error messages I get after trying this.
gettingold