stop started  all the services etc, I did some further investigation
with a packet sniffer I had build and I found my packets where being
forwarded to the firewall for internal sites and the firewall would try and
resolve the internal address on external DNS server therefore kicking out
errors.

So it was quite simple, the environment had changed I was sitting at home
dialed in on a new dial up connection, I checked the browser settings for
that connection and found "bypass proxy server for internal addresses"
unchecked. Once I checked that option it worked.