The command line, DNS cache clear, nslookup, traceroute, and ping. OH MY.

[aveleh]

I have no idea how to format proper names/titles, etc. But this suggested grouping would work best for me when providing information to users who open web-ui requests

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[tell_me]

At the moment there happens to be a Windows Vista Enterprise in front of me, so here are a couple of comments. Please note that I'm using a computer that wasn't installed by me, so I don't know exactly what the admins might have changed through the local and domain policies.

- AFAIK, it isn't necessary to open the command prompt with administrator rights, normal user rights should be enough for nslookup, tracert and ping. (I'm pretty sure I don't have administrator rights to this computer.)

- The easiest way to open the command prompt with Vista is to click the Orb button, then type 'cmd' into the 'Start Search' text field and hit the enter key. I'm not sure if the search box is there by default, though... Maybe someone else could check that.

- Nslookup works as described in your tutorial.

- The command for tracing the route in Windows Vista, XP & 2000 is 'tracert', not 'traceroute', so that part of the tutorial doesn't work with Windows.

- Ping in Windows Vista doesn't know the -c option, and the command in the tutorial returns 'bad option -c' with the usage instructions.
If you type 'ping livejournal.com', Windows will send 4 pings and then stop. If you really want the number to be 10, then the command would be 'ping -n 10 livejournal.com'. AFAIK, it's like that in Windows XP and 2000, too, but I don't have either here right now to test with.

- Copying text works the same way in Vista as you've described for Windows XP.

[aveleh]

Awesome, thanks. I had finalized this when I woke up in the middle of the night, so it's not a surprise I miscopied stuff.

I've already changed the tracert and ping to be correct for Windows. I haven't yet changed the directions for opening the command prompt in Vista.