Hi,

I recently installed Windows Vista ultimate on my computer, and have had a relatively trouble free, if not impressive experience, with it till recently. A couple of days back, I shared my internet connection with an Xp pro computer using a hub and Vista's ICS, with my vista machine being the main host. While initially it worked well, soon it started giving a weird error.

After some time, my Vista machine randomly starts showing a "Server not found" error. Diagnostics says that the DNS server is not responding. Strangely, the internet still works perfectly on the Xp pro computer, and if i disable sharing, everything goes back to normal. This happens randomly after some use, but always happens, and without any explanation.

I have used ICS on xp pro before, and never encountered a problem. Any ideas why this is happening?

Specs:

(Vista Machine)
Asus P5B deluxe motherboard
Intel Core 2 duo E6600
2 gb ddr2 800 ram
480 GB (raid 1) hdd
Geforce 8800 gts 640 mb
Windows Vista Ultimate

(Xp machine)
Gigabyte 81K1000 rev 1 motherboard
Intel P4 2.6C
1 gb ddr ram
100 gb hdd
Geforce 5900 Ultra 256 mb
Windows Xp professional