Slow/erratic DNS lookups...

Parallels was working just fine last night...nothing changed that I'm aware of since then. I had already installed the recent Apple security update before last night.

For whatever reason, some DNS lookups are very slow, some are fine. Some sites load like they normally would, some don't. For the ones that don't, going to the site 2 or 3 times in IE will sometimes do it...if not, when I run the xp network diagnostics thing (which detects no problems), it seems to fix it.

Any ideas why this would happen all of a sudden, and how do I fix it?

 

Just a sidenote to this...I'm using shared networking, and I have no problem getting connected initially. So I don't think it's related to the issue I was reading about in other threads where people can't get an IP, though maybe it is- I don't know. I have not repaired permissions since the security update regardless.

Also...the occasional ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew will fix it temporarily...

I was thinking this was more of a weird XP issue?

 

Are you having any DNS lookup issues from the Mac side?

 

No dns lookup issues on the mac side

 

I'm having the this problem only worse. NSLOOKUP on the windows side, doesn't return anything. No problem on the MAC side. I can get pings into and out of on the windows side if I use the ip address.

the parallels NAT and guest adapters do not show a router. On the Mac side there is one.

Any ideas out there?

--Jay

 

Have you tried a re-install of Parallels tools and/or Parallels?

 

DNS Issues

Yes... I uninstalled and reinstalled parallels.

 

Have you zapped Parallels completely? http://forum.parallels.com/thread1226.html

 

I did not do all of that. Frankly all of those rm commands made me nervous.

 

Try it. It will probably help.