Techpointer

Found answers to some of the problems that were bothering me for quite some time:

1. If you use multiple interfaces to connect the internet, for example, say wireless and lan, or two different lan cards, you might have sometimes faced a problem that you are able to connect to the internet - you can ping your ISP router, you can ping website's addresses, but you can't use your DNS. This is what I had been dealing with ever since I started using wireless and lan interchangeably to connect to the internet. It confuses the Windows Network management, and which screws up your DNS or some gateway, and for me, the problem was I could not use my DNS.

I believe the problem was due to intermingling of connections somehow, since multiple interfaces were being used, and windows kind of mixed them up when all are enabled, eg, it might use the gateway for your wired connection when you are in wireless mode or so on.

What I did was I changed the connections from automatic metric to a specific metric. So far it has done the trick for me. I just realised this today, and tried it out, and i was able to ping google.com, instead of just some static ip I somehow remember. I am going to test this out furthermore, and so for now, this remains a beta post :D.