Windows ICS & unreachable websites

[ngupt02]

Has anyone else encountered difficulties in reaching certain websites while using Window's Internet Connection Sharing? I currently have a WinXP box with ICS enabled. When other computers on the network try to reach say weather.com they are unable to, while the ICS server connects just fine.

 

[KB]

Are your ICS clients getting an IP address from the ICS server?

If so, then you still may need to configure your ICS clients with the same DNS server entries that your ICS server has. If the ICS server is using DHCP to find its DNS servers, then use ipconfig /all to figure out the DNS servers IP addresses and hardcode them on the ICS clients.

If not, try to hardcode their IP addresses and make sure you can ping the ICS server.

Also make sure that the clients browser is set to detect the proxy server and also make sure the default gateway is the IP of the ICS server.

Good luck