IE not Displaying Pages

[Guest]

Greetings,

I have a 2003 server with IE6 SP1 installed that generates a "The page
cannot be displayed" error for any web address. Our
network uses ISA for the proxy and has proxy setting in IE. I have verified
all proxy settings are correct. Other machines setup identically (Except for
IP) on the same network segment can get to web pages without problem. I have
verified DNS settings as well as settings on the ISA server. All check out
normally. I can ping other machines ont he network, the ISA servers, and even
web addresses. I an pull intranet sites. It almost acts like IE doesn't ever
contact the proxy server even though it's enabled and set properly in the IE
LAN settings.

Does anyone have any ideas of roads to go down or has anyone seen this
before? I'm stumped.

Thanks in Advance!!

-Adam

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

....

It almost acts like IE doesn't ever contact the proxy server
even though it's enabled and set properly in the IE LAN settings.

Use the proxycfg tool to check your proxy settings.
Apparently sometimes the settings can appear to be set by aren't.

Also, if you used IE's Tools menu to set them
that might not be sufficient. FWIW I always use Run...

control inetcpl.cpl,,4

instead.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, settings are correct using both tools and thru IE. Even my
proxy server shows no connection attempts to from the client server to the
proxy server.

The whole thing is just odd. Every other aspect of the server works
properly. I can hit internal stuff just fine, and I can run all applications
on the server without any trouble.

Thanks for the response...Any other ideas or paths to run down?

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

....

Even my proxy server shows no connection attempts
to from the client server to the proxy server. ....
Any other ideas or paths to run down?

Have you taken a packet trace of it? E.g. perhaps the failure occurs
during the lookup? Capture both cases and then look for differences
in the two flows.

Because you are already using a proxy it may not be possible to use a
proxy tracer (such as FiddlerTool) but you should be able to use netcap
and then format the resulting .cap file with Ethereal (for example.)


Good luck

Robert
---