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Dear Readers, Apologize for not sharing anything with you since so long. As was bit busy with projects. (But It’s good to be busy. Because during your busy time you learn a lot, and needless to say once you get time you will have a lot to share!). So, don’t worry I’ve lot to share and have created a list of blogs to share with you.

Today, one of my colleague faced “No such host is known” error, and I faced it so earlier and found solution for it as well (What, you are also facing the same error? And searching for a solution? calm down, We’ve solution for you!). At that time he told you should post it. And it inspired me to write this blog post.

Server Error in ‘/’ Application.

No such host is known

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: No such host is known

Source Error:

Stack Trace:

[SocketException (0x2af9): No such host is known]
   System.Net.Dns.GetAddrInfo(String name) +471
   System.Net.Dns.InternalGetHostByName(String hostName, Boolean includeIPv6) +121
   System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(String hostNameOrAddress) +109
   Sitecore.Web.WebUtil.GetHostIPAddress() +76
   Sitecore.Login.LoginPage.RenderStartPage() +131
   Sitecore.Login.LoginPage.OnPreRender(EventArgs e) +216
   System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal() +80
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +842

Solution:

When we faced this error earlier we fixed it by  enabling “use NETBIOS over TCPIP” from network settings is not as given in this link — http://www.mycsharpcorner.com/Post.aspx?postID=28

and it fixed our issue and same for my colleague too!

But today, did a quick search on forum and web and people have suggested different solutions. Which you can also try if above given solution doesn’t works for you:

http://sdn.sitecore.net/SDN5/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?postid=25359

http://sdn.sitecore.net/SDN5/Forum/ShowPost.aspx?postid=20560

http://sitecoreblog.alexshyba.com/2010/01/no-such-host-is-known.html

Please do share, which way worked for you!

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