Hi wdyu2002, Windows XP has its own lookup table for resolving DNS names. Every time I access a web address XP goes to the ISP's DNS & gets the equivalent IP address for that site...then XP stores...

I think windows XP handles the timings in GIF animations all by itself.
This is just a theory so take your own risk here. But I would try system restore to a date when you knew the GIF files would...

Do you have windows XP?, On windows XP & windows 2000 there is something called DNS resolver caching.
This is were your computer does the job of your isp and plucks from its datatbase the ip...

thanks tyler for responding. I have jsut this second managed to resolve this issue. I earlier narrowed it down to a dns resolver cache on the gateway machine that had stored invalid addresses. I...

I have recently had a reconfiguration on my computer that makes it impossible for me to visit popular websites including yahoo.com, microsoft.com etc.... I have no clue how to undo this.
For...