How To Change Dns Server On Windows Xp

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Two methods for altering DNS setting on Win XP Users: A) For Dial Up Users My Computer - Dial Up Networking - Make right click on Internet connection - Go with Internet Properties - New windows with Server type tab- TCP/IP settings - move ahead a desired radio button to alter DNS Server - edit existing DNS settings B) For Other Users. Select Use the following DNS server addresses, and enter: Preferred DNS server: 8.8.8.8; Alternate DNS server: 8.8.4.4 7. Finally, click the OK in this and the previous windows to save your changes. Open the Control Panel. You can either: On the Start screen, type Control Panel and click on the Control Panel link in the search results.

  • Change DNS server address to public DNS in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 (1) Right-click on network icon in the taskbar and click 'Open Network and Sharing Center' (2) Click 'Change adapter settings'.
  • Changing DNS servers for clients using DHCP is a trivial matter; just update Option 6 for the DHCP scope with the new name server IP addresses and restart the client (or wait until they renew their lease).

How To Change Dns Server On Windows Xp 10

Two very powerful DNS query tools in linux are dig and nslookup. In Microsoft Windows XP, dig is not part of the base install, however, nslookup is. This HOW-TO will show you how to utilize the Windows nslookup tool for slightly more advanced DNS queries.

8 Steps total

Change dns in windows

Step 1: Open A Command Prompt or CLI

Click the Start button, and choose 'Run....'

Step 2: Start the Command Interpreter

How

Type the following into the Run dialog box:

cmd

Click the OK button.

Step 3: Start Nslookup

Type:

nslookup

Press Enter on the keyboard.

Step 4: Check What Options Are Available With Help or ?

Type:

help

or, type:

?

Press Enter on the keyboard.

Step 5: To Check Mail or MX Records

To Check DNS Mail or MX Records for a specific domain, it is easiest to first set the parameters, then to make the actual query, in two separate steps. (More advanced queries can have more than two parameters set across several commands.) To query for MX Records, use the SET TYPE option. So, to check the MX Records for the domain, spiceworks.com, type:

set type=MX

Press ENTER on the keyboard. This tells nslookup that any subsequent queries are to return MX record information. This is not just a one time setting, as all queries for this nslookup session will remain for the type set, until the type is changed.

To finish the query for MX Records for the spiceworks.com domain, next type:

spiceworks.com

Press ENTER on the keyboard.

Step 6: To Check All or ANY Records

To check all or ANY DNS Records for a specific domain, it is easiest to first set the parameters, then to make the actual query, in two separate steps. This is similar to the method mentioned above, in 'To Check Mail or MX Records.' To check for ANY Records for the domain, spiceworks.com, type:

set type=ANY

Press ENTER on the keyboard. Then type:

spiceworks.com

Press ENTER on the keyboard.

Step 7: To Change The Default DNS Server

Something which is very much misunderstood by most entities is that, at times, propagation can be bypassed. This is helpful to verify DNS changes without having to wait for propagation. One method for bypassing propagation is to change the nslookup session's default DNS server to the authoritative DNS server of the domain which is to be queried. This does not always work as expected, for various reasons, but it is usually worthwhile to try.

In previous examples, the authoritative name server, or DNS server, for the domain spiceworks.com has been ns1.onr.com. So, to change the default DNS server to this name server, type:

server ns1.onr.com

Press ENTER on the keyboard.

Step 8: To Receive Verbose Feedback - Debug

To receive verbose or debugging information for each query, use the SET DEBUG option. To do this, type:

set debug

Press ENTER on the keyboard.

Now that the debug option has been set, subsequent queries will display more information about what queries and communication is actually taking place. To see an example of the debugging information, type:

spiceworks.com

Press ENTER on the keyboard. You should see more output on the screen which gives more details regarding the query.

To see even more verbose output, use the SET D2 option. To do this, type:

set d2

How

Press ENTER on the keyboard. Subsequent queries will yield a lot more output.

The nslookup command, in Microsoft Windows XP is a powerful and useful tool for DNS queries, which can help trouble-shoot, verify, and satisfy curiosities regarding DNS Record information.

How To Change Dns Server On Windows Xp

Published: Nov 06, 2008 ยท Last Updated: May 17, 2012

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9 Comments

  • Pure Capsaicin
    Martin9700 Nov 6, 2008 at 07:21am

    Nice!

  • Pimiento
    Beatrice105 Nov 24, 2008 at 01:06pm

    Thanks for this post!

  • Robert (Spiceworks) Jun 10, 2009 at 05:33pm

    This is some great information about not only what nslookup can do, but how to do it. Thanks Javier!

  • Habanero
    John6020 Jul 4, 2011 at 07:41am

    Thanks - I've been looking for some more info on this.

  • Thai Pepper
    Gerald Cox Oct 4, 2011 at 07:54am

    This is a very concise How-to. I've referred back to it several times when DNS problems rear their ugly head.

  • Jalapeno
    ZAV Dec 12, 2011 at 10:22pm

    THANKS....did learn something new today.....

  • Ghost Chili
    JustRob Jul 26, 2012 at 11:58am

    very cool, great howto, thanks :-)

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