jimpjr Posted April 18, 2011 Member ID: 1526 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 43 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 277 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/23/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 22, 2015 Birthday: 02/07/1998 Posted April 18, 2011 When Jimp snr is playing on cod5 and cod4 servers and i want to join i keep geting a time out, in the game browser the server he is on is only shown up as the IP but if i go on a server my dad can come and join. does anyone know what this problem could be it only happens on my PC
Cavey Posted April 18, 2011 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted April 18, 2011 This sounds like a DNS issue. Firstly open up command prompt (start, and in the run or windows, type cmd). You will get a black window appear. At the cursor, type ipconfig /flushdns (that space is supposed to be there). It should reply saying it has flushed your dns. At the same prompt, now type ping google.co.uk (you should see 4 replies from an ip address). This will indicate that your dns is working. Try the game again. Let me know if you still have issues.
jimpjr Posted April 18, 2011 Member ID: 1526 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 43 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 277 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/23/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 22, 2015 Birthday: 02/07/1998 Author Posted April 18, 2011 Cavey This sounds like a DNS issue. Firstly open up command prompt (start, and in the run or windows, type cmd). You will get a black window appear. At the cursor, type ipconfig /flushdns (that space is supposed to be there). It should reply saying it has flushed your dns. At the same prompt, now type ping google.co.uk (you should see 4 replies from an ip address). This will indicate that your dns is working. Try the game again. Let me know if you still have issues. Thanks mate it works now cheers
Cavey Posted April 18, 2011 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted April 18, 2011 NP Mate
jimpjr Posted April 18, 2011 Member ID: 1526 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 43 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 277 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/23/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 22, 2015 Birthday: 02/07/1998 Author Posted April 18, 2011 It worked the first time but now its not any advice?
Cavey Posted April 18, 2011 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted April 18, 2011 OK. Firstly you can set your network card to do a dns lookup or your router. The way to check, is either going to the properties or your network card and seeign if dns is set to dynamic. Another way, is to use the command prompt as above, and type nslookup. It will come back with an IP address, which should be take of your router. This means your network card is set to look at the router settings. If above turns out to be as I expect, then I have to ask if either you or your Dad played around with the settings within the router. Most routers have an option to set dynamic DNS or fixed DNS. Most people don't plat with this, and is normally set to dynamic, which means it will automatically get the DNS records from your ISP. If you have it set to fixed, you must make sure the primary and seconardary dns IP addresses are those provided by your ISP. If only one pc in your house is suffering with this, then it isn't your router at fault. Either your network card has had fixed dns IP Addresses applied, or your network card is playing up. I would help tonight, but a bit busy. I should on in the evenings this week, and can help you out. However DNS problems shouldn't completely stop you playing. As long as you know the IP address of the server you want to connect to, you should still be able to game. Best bet is add the server ip and port through xfire, and connect that way. Keeps you ticking over until we catch up.
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