can't browse or get email

[Jason]

I am really confused. I have a laptop running Windows
ME. Everytime I try to open Internet Explorer or Outlook,
an error comes up and I am unable to connect. I am
however able to browse the local network. I should
clarify a few things. I get errors when I try to use a
local/internal IP, but it does work when I use external
IPs (outside the firewall). I beleieve it has something
to do with DNS. As soon as I put the local IP for the DNS
server I get the errors. If I leave out the DNS, I can't
browse, but I also don't get the error.
I have tried this with a wireless NIC as well as the built
in NIC, the problem occurs with both.

Please help

[N. Miller]

In article >, Jason says...

> I am really confused. I have a laptop running Windows
> ME. Everytime I try to open Internet Explorer or Outlook,
> an error comes up and I am unable to connect. I am
> however able to browse the local network. I should
> clarify a few things. I get errors when I try to use a
> local/internal IP, but it does work when I use external
> IPs (outside the firewall). I beleieve it has something
> to do with DNS. As soon as I put the local IP for the DNS
> server I get the errors. If I leave out the DNS, I can't
> browse, but I also don't get the error.
> I have tried this with a wireless NIC as well as the built
> in NIC, the problem occurs with both.

What do you mean by "local IP"? AFAIK, your LAN connected computer needs the
IP addresses of your ISP's DNS servers; or some other DNS server with
Internet routing information. Unless that "local IP" is a DNS server which
checks external DNS, it isn't going to have DNS information the browser and
mail client need to find remote hosts.

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