When I pinged the site address, it did find the ip address, but
timesout.
I am out of options here, the admin from work basically said to
replace win98 with winxp.
Thanks for your help again.
On Feb 4, 11:38*pm, "Robert Aldwinckle" <rob...@techemail.com> wrote:
> <bekal...@yahoo.com> wrote in messagenews:656c5f23-e546-4b13-afc1-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I ping the adddress, it timesout. (what does it means?)
>
> Nothing important. * What's important is the address you get
> from its lookup.
>
> > At work used the same address and it worked fine.
>
> Unless you get the sameDNSin both locations
> that isn't necessarily significant either.
>
> BTW pleasefinda way too stop using Quoted-Printable for your reply.
> Google Groups must have a way that you can reply in Plain text without it..
> Quoted-Printable makes composing replies which quote from your messages
> unnecessarily more work for your responders who use a real NNTP
> newsreader.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Robert
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> <QP>
> Thanks for your response
> I checked the HOSTS file and there is nothing in *there except the
> localhost.
>
> I ping the adddress, it timesout. (what does it means?)
>
> At work used the same address and it worked fine.
>
> One of the site that I am trying is https and a couple of them are
> not.
>
> On Jan 29, 10:13am, "Robert Aldwinckle" <rob...@techemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > <bekal...@yahoo.com> wrote in messagenews:90d7e9da-8270-4874-878f-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > Hi
>
> > > I can access all websites (google, hotmail etc) except I am having a
> > > problem accessing
> > > my job's (public) websites.
>
> > This implies that you have aDNS. *Otherwise it means that everything
> > you access has an entry in your HOSTS file.
>
> > > The problem started happening recently. I
> > > haveIE6.0 SP1 and Windows 98. I took my PC to work and all the
> > > websites seems to work from there using their internet connection.
>
> > While there did you have to change your connection settings at all,
> > e.g. use a different DNSaddress?
>
> > > I use ADSL connection. I am not sure how to troubleshoot this problem..
>
> > On Win98 with great difficulty because of the lack of tools on that OS.
>
> > > I getCannotfindserverorDNSErrormessage in the browser. I have
> > > the same problem with firefox.
>
> > What is the "public" site? *What do you see if you try to ping -n 1 it?
> > E.g. open a Command Prompt (aka DOS prompt) and enter:
>
> > * ping -n 1 {plus the host's name}
>
> > > Please guide me on what I need to do.
>
> > Ask for help from your Work site's network administrator.
> > Another possibility is that the site isn't as "public" as you may think..
>
> > Good luck
>
> > Robert Aldwinckle
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