Question : Users can't visit yahoo.com, but servers can??

Starting just a few days ago, with no changes made to the servers or desktops (other than weekly MS updates)... all the users in one of my remote offices now can't get on Yahoo.com.  The servers in that office get to it just fine so I'm assuming that rules out any DNS or Firewall issues.  

The users desktops can ping yahoo.com just fine.  Tracert gets there just fine also.  

I already tried flushing the DNS, checking the restricted sites in IE, and checked the hosts file.  

Vista desktops with SP2.


Any other suggestions?

Answer : Users can't visit yahoo.com, but servers can??

where does the  10.11.12.160 address come from?

point DNS to itself.
On the workstations leave them be the way they are on DHCP.

open up DNS
Administrative tools ->DNS
Click on the servername then right click it and go to properties.

Under the forwarders tab what do you have listed there?
Are you connected to a much larger network?  is that were the  10.11.12.160 comes from?
if not then add the open dns servers to the forwarders.  
Write down the others listed there just in case for some reason you need them.
Remove them (The can be added back if for some reason you need them)
If you are talking to another network segment you may need that 10.11.12.160 in there under the forwarders. To be safe you may want that one listed first. Just depends on your situation.
You can add that and both open dns servers. The OpenDNS servers can be backups. While 10.11.12.160 one being in the top position. If you want to take advantage of the open dns servers then you will need to remove it and register a opendns account for free.  As I said it depends on your situation though.  All should work if you do this.

Casey

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