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Windows Forum / Windows Me / Internet / February 2005Cannot access particular URL
Looking for guidance here as I accept this may not be an IE issue. I have a home network connecting through a DLink router to ADSL. All worked fne until today (and no known changes made). Now I cannot access any part of the BA website (www.britishairways.com or www.ba.com) as I get the "page unavailable" screen. BUT - the website is working as I can access through a dial up via a non-networked laptop and I get the same error on all PCs on the network. All other websites that I try are fine so I am trying to think of a (probably) router error that would effectively block just one site..!! I have rebooted the router. I shall of course seek guidance on a Dlink forum but hoped someone here might also be able to help > Looking for guidance here as I accept this may not be an IE issue. I > have a home network connecting through a DLink router to ADSL. All [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > guidance on a Dlink forum but hoped someone here might also be able > to help It could be blocked any number of ways, I was able to access the site here. Perhaps you've got it blocked with a firewall? It's in your hosts file with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. You could have used some "acceleration software" that caches IP addresses for sites and the numeric address has changed. It could have been temporarily unavailable at that time and you can try later? You could just need to delete your temporary internet files for instance but that's probably not it. You could try it and see. Without more information I'm not really sure what to tell you but it could be any one of those, or more, things. Galen  Signature"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes Thanks Galen: I had made no changes compared to the previous day when it was fine - it was accessible through the Dlink NAT all the time and yes, the web site was up as at the same time I could access it via a dial up. No acceleration sofware. Will delete temp internet files but the problem was an all three PCs on the network (two Win ME , one XP) - strange to say the least! > > Looking for guidance here as I accept this may not be an IE issue. I > > have a home network connecting through a DLink router to ADSL. All [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Galen > I had made no changes compared to the previous day when it was fine - > it was accessible through the Dlink NAT all the time and yes, the web > site was up as at the same time I could access it via a dial up. No > acceleration sofware. Will delete temp internet files but the problem > was an all three PCs on the network (two Win ME , one XP) - strange > to say the least! The router could be at fault but unless you specifically blocked the site(s) it's probably not. It could be a temporary DNS issue with your ISP even, or at least I'd hope it's temporary. Galen Signature"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes Galen I think you hit it with the ISP DNS comment. I had not thought of that and now, by magic, it is working again. When I accesed by dial up it was with a different ISP to the one I use for ADSL (Frreserve) Thanks for your input J > > I had made no changes compared to the previous day when it was fine - > > it was accessible through the Dlink NAT all the time and yes, the web [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Galen > Galen > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > J No problem. What happens in MOST cases is the ISP checks one (or more) of the DNS servers for the IP address or nameserver's IP address I guess I should say. This IP may have changed and needed time to propagate to the new address. The server could have been giving you an old address which would eventually MAYBE route to the correct IP address if you allowed enough hops in your TTL (Time to Live) settings. That's only a MAYBE however. It was likely the DNS server or your ISP working out a bug or, alternatively, the site changed IP addresses and hadn't the new one hadn't been resolved and cached yet. Galen Signature"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes > Thanks Galen: > [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] >> stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for >> mental exaltation." -- Sherlock Holmes Did you actually check your HOSTS file? SignatureFrank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email http://www.fjsmjs.com Protect your PC http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/ |
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