From: Zoft on
Hi,
I just got this same problem today and lost the IP address too. I reset my
Internet connections to default and the IP address came back but I still
can't get on the Internet or use the wireless router. I do not know what to
do either. I also got an error message that says "Hostname www.microsoft.com
could not be resolved (Error code 0x2afc) Could be either gateway or DNS
issue."

Microsoft does not have either error message codes in their database. Help?
Please.

"malfuriouspete" wrote:

> this has just started happening recently. I'll be using the internet on my
> wireless network and for some reason my connection will just stop, and I'm
> forced to go through Microsoft Diagnostics to reconnect. This is basically
> what I see through the diagnostics:
>
> warn HTTP: Error 12007 connecting to www.microsoft.com: The server name
> or
> address could not be resolved
> warn FTP (Passive): Error 12007 connecting to ftp.microsoft.com: The
> server
> name or address could not be resolved
> warn HTTPS: Error 12007 connecting to www.microsoft.com: The server
> name or
> address could not be resolved
> warn HTTP: Error 12007 connecting to www.hotmail.com: The server name
> or
> address could not be resolved
> warn FTP (Active): Error 12007 connecting to ftp.microsoft.com: The
> server
> name or address could not be resolved
> warn HTTPS: Error 12007 connecting to www.passport.net: The server name
> or
> address could not be resolved
> error Could not make an HTTP connection.
> error Could not make an HTTPS connection.
> error Could not make an FTP connection.
>
> Its been happening to my wife's computer as well, connection being dropped
> all the time. I thought it was something with my router but I'm not so sure.
> I'm pretty sure I haven't fooled around with any of the settings recently
> since this has only started happening within the last 2 weeks. Its a huge
> inconvenience more than anything since diagnostics usually restores the
> connection but I'd rather not have to do that every 15 minutes.
>
> If anyone can help, greatly appreciated
From: Barb Bowman on
You are replying to a thread that is very old. Did you reset your
broadband modem and routers?

Did you add any software? Download driver updates?

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 15:24:01 -0700, Zoft
<Zoft(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I just got this same problem today and lost the IP address too. I reset my
>Internet connections to default and the IP address came back but I still
>can't get on the Internet or use the wireless router. I do not know what to
>do either. I also got an error message that says "Hostname www.microsoft.com
>could not be resolved (Error code 0x2afc) Could be either gateway or DNS
>issue."
>
>Microsoft does not have either error message codes in their database. Help?
>Please.
>
>"malfuriouspete" wrote:
>
>> this has just started happening recently. I'll be using the internet on my
>> wireless network and for some reason my connection will just stop, and I'm
>> forced to go through Microsoft Diagnostics to reconnect. This is basically
>> what I see through the diagnostics:
>>
>> warn HTTP: Error 12007 connecting to www.microsoft.com: The server name
>> or
>> address could not be resolved
>> warn FTP (Passive): Error 12007 connecting to ftp.microsoft.com: The
>> server
>> name or address could not be resolved
>> warn HTTPS: Error 12007 connecting to www.microsoft.com: The server
>> name or
>> address could not be resolved
>> warn HTTP: Error 12007 connecting to www.hotmail.com: The server name
>> or
>> address could not be resolved
>> warn FTP (Active): Error 12007 connecting to ftp.microsoft.com: The
>> server
>> name or address could not be resolved
>> warn HTTPS: Error 12007 connecting to www.passport.net: The server name
>> or
>> address could not be resolved
>> error Could not make an HTTP connection.
>> error Could not make an HTTPS connection.
>> error Could not make an FTP connection.
>>
>> Its been happening to my wife's computer as well, connection being dropped
>> all the time. I thought it was something with my router but I'm not so sure.
>> I'm pretty sure I haven't fooled around with any of the settings recently
>> since this has only started happening within the last 2 weeks. Its a huge
>> inconvenience more than anything since diagnostics usually restores the
>> connection but I'd rather not have to do that every 15 minutes.
>>
>> If anyone can help, greatly appreciated
--

Barb Bowman
MS-MVP
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