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www.superyoink.de is my clients' website. I can access it from any machine except my development one.

If I ping it on my development machine, I get 80.67.28.107 - this is wrong.

My laptop, next to me, is able to resolve it correctly.

I have tried putting correct address into hosts like so:

93.187.232.191 www.superyoink.de

Still resolves to wrong address.

Rebooted, did ipconfig /flushdns nothing seems to work.

Can anyone suggest a way to fix this?

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Have you checked the DNS servers match a "working" machine?

Rowland Shaw
Even when I entered bogus entries and can no longer access any site, the superyoink address resolves to that 80.67.28.107. Hosts file has 120.0.0.1 localhost now.
Patrick
But are both host using the same DNS servers? It could be the case that one is pointing at an out-of-date/malicious DNS server
Rowland Shaw
+1  A: 

A few things you could try:

  • Double check your hosts file to make sure you don't have more than one entry for www.superyoink.de. You may wish to include the content of your hosts file with your question.

  • Compare the hosts file of your development machine and the laptop. Assuming that the contents should be similar -- are there any significant differences with respect to www.superyoink.de?

  • Compare the network configuration of your development machine and the laptop. Are both machines using the same DNS servers or different DNS servers?

Convict
This example covers most of the possible causes.In regards to the third suggestion, you should also check to see if you are doing any windows domain based name resolution. Finally, if you must, a packet trace could show you why PING is going to the wrong IP address.
benc