After 8 months I restarted by old faithful PC with a new internet provider (Reliance). ��� ��� 8 ���� �� ����� �� ���� �� ��� �������� ������� ����� ��� ���� �������� ���� (��������). I found that I can access websites using their IP address, yet cannot access them using their name like www.yahoo.com. ��� ���� ���� ���� ������ ��� ����� ����� �������� ������ ������� ������� � ��� ��� �� ���� ������ ����� �������� ��� ��� www.yahoo.com. Interestingly nslookup worked giving me the proper IP address! ��� ������ ��nslookup ���� ��� ������ ������� ������ ������� �������!
The stop-gap solution was to add to my hosts file, which isn't very comfortable. ��� ��� ������ ���� ���� �� ���� ��� ����� ������ ����� � ��� ���� ����� ���. The DNS client service was running properly, so what gives? ���� ����� �������� ����� ���� ������� ��� ����� ������ � ���� �� ����

I realized that I had set the DHCP client service to manual. ��� ���� ���� �� ���� DHCP ���� ����� �������. On starting it, everything was back to normal. ��� ��� � ��� �� ��� ������ ��� ����� �������. Can anyone explain why they have code which requires DHCP client service to be running to do DNS lookups? ��� ���� ���� �� ���� ����� ����� ����� ���� ����� DHCP ���� ������� ���� ����� ������ �������� �� ���� If nslookup can do it, why not DNS client service? Nslookup ��� ���� ������ �� ���� ��� � ������ �� ������ ���� ��������

BTW: Reliance famed 114Kbps connection speed is actually 20Kbps, slower than my modem! ���� ����� : �������� ������ 114kbps ���� ������� �� �� ������ 20kbps � ���� �� ����� ����! So much for the hype. ���� ������ �� ������.