Forums Connection Issues I cant connect help!!

I'm talking to someone who's pretty good now, and someone else who should know what she's doing just popped in, so let's see ...

ok - he says to go into mIRC and type

/dns microsoft.com

see what that says

* Dns resolving microsoft.com
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* Dns unable to resolve microsoft.com

that's all that i got!

btw - thanks for the help really!

VERY strange.

No problem - I just wish we could get you on some network - it would make things easier

soo is there a solution to all this orr i am never going to be on mirc lol

In mIRC - go to File/Options, then to Connect, then to Local Info

Copy everything there to here - which boxes are checked and which button is clicked - DON'T paste yuour IP address or local host here if you value your privacy, but make sure they look like real ones.

BTW, the end of local host - the <whatever>.net or .org or .com should be your provider - that you can post here.

There's always a solution. Sometimes the solution is worse than the problem, but there's always a solution.

I can spend about another hour and a half tonight working on this with you, so we should be able to fix it.

If not, there's always dynamite.

okk.. here is nothing written on the local host and ip address.

on connect, always get - the local host is checked.

lookup method - the server is checked.

Uncheck Local Host

Check IP Address

Recheck Local Host

Then click OK, close mIRC, run it again and see if you can connect to something

still the same - i got unable to resolve server again

look in the two boxes - did they get filled in? local host and IP address?

yes both are filled in

in local host, what's at the right end? <what>.net or <what>.org?

there is nothing written in the ip address or local host. ITs empty.

okay, that's what's wrong - the ip address has to get filled in ... try changing the Server method to Normal, click ok, close mIRC and rerun it. (You have to close it because it only gets the local stuff when it first starts up.)

it says 'mIRC will tr to fill in these values by itself, so leave them empty for now'

Did you try to connect to a server since you changed the IP check?

same thing. It says unable to resolve server

Are you running Zone Alarm?

zone alarm?? I dont think soo