A user is able to ping www.cisco.com by its IP address but cannot browse to www.cisco.com in a browser. What is the possible cause?

A user is able to ping www.cisco.com by its IP address but cannot browse to www.cisco.com in a browser. What is the possible cause?

• The IP address of the source PC is wrong.
• The IP address of the gateway is wrong.
• The DHCP server is not configured correctly.
• The DNS server is not working.

Explanation: The DNS server is used to resolve the URL address (www.cisco.com) to an IP address. Once the IP address is obtained, the echo request is forwarded to the IP address and the process proceeds. If a ping to the IP address succeeds, but a ping to the name does not, there is most likely a problem with DNS server.

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