Trouble connecting to specific sites.

[JL]

I have been browsing all sorts of groups/forums in search of a solution
to my problem by mine seems askew. I cannot access any variation of a
wvu.edu website. I cannot access wvu.edu, star.wvu.edu, or mix.wvu.edu
.. My other two roommate have no problem accessing the sites so I have
ruled out ISP issues(Adelphia Cable). I have done extensive
Spyware/Adware searches(never had any problems really) with no
problems. It's interesting that I can navigate to star.wvu.edu via the
IP( 157.182.47.146) but I can't navigate anywhere past that without
typing the direct IP address. There aren't any sites in the HOSTS file
either. I tried a traceroute but I'm not sure how to read it. Here
goes:

raceroute to wvu.edu (157.182.140.119), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets
1 i0.chi75.adelphiacom.net (66.109.10.17) 0.560 ms 0.440 ms 0.361
ms
2 g1-01-02-00.a0.chi75.adelphiacom.net (66.109.3.17) 0.584 ms 0.387
ms 0.312 ms
3 a1-00-00-00.c0.chi75.adelphiacom.net (66.109.3.1) 0.338 ms r0chi00
(66.109.3.5) 0.374 ms a1-00-00-00.c0.chi75.adelphiacom.net
(66.109.3.1) 0.326 ms
4 p0chi00 (66.109.3.10) 0.463 ms p0chi75 (66.109.3.14) 0.406 ms
p0chi00 (66.109.3.10) 2.745 ms
5 ge-6-2.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net (67.72.124.29) 0.471 ms 0.532 ms
ge-6-5.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net (67.72.124.25) 0.443 ms
6 ge-6-0-0-53.edge1.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.68.101.77) 0.618 ms
ge-6-0-0-55.edge1.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.68.101.141) 0.593 ms
ge-7-0-0-52.edge1.Chicago1.Level3.net (4.68.101.45) 0.711 ms
7 sprint-level3-oc48.Chicago1.Level3.net (209.0.225.22) 0.842 ms
0.916 ms 0.792 ms
8 sl-bb20-chi-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.2) 1.763 ms 2.133 ms
1.918 ms
9 sl-bb23-chi-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.26.54) 2.474 ms 2.442 ms
2.407 ms
10 sl-bb27-rly-11-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.185) 20.432 ms 20.477
ms 20.500 ms
11 sl-bb20-rly-13-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.25.17) 20.623 ms 20.612
ms 20.632 ms
12 sl-gw19-rly-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.14.26) 20.775 ms 20.520
ms 20.600 ms
13 sl-state4-3-0-0.sprintlink.net (160.81.255.110) 35.892 ms 35.553
ms 35.526 ms
14 129.71.127.165 (129.71.127.165) 35.664 ms 35.812 ms 35.522 ms
15 129.71.127.201 (129.71.127.201) 28.900 ms 29.365 ms 28.991 ms
16 * * *



Any ideas?

 

[Malke]

I have been browsing all sorts of groups/forums in search of a
solution to my problem by mine seems askew. I cannot access any
variation of a wvu.edu website. I cannot access wvu.edu, star.wvu.edu,
or mix.wvu.edu . My other two roommate have no problem accessing the
sites so I have ruled out ISP issues(Adelphia Cable). I have done
extensive Spyware/Adware searches(never had any problems really) with
no problems. It's interesting that I can navigate to star.wvu.edu via
the IP( 157.182.47.146) but I can't navigate anywhere past that
without typing the direct IP address. There aren't any sites in the
HOSTS file either. I tried a traceroute but I'm not sure how to read
it. Here goes:

raceroute to wvu.edu (157.182.140.119), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets
1 i0.chi75.adelphiacom.net (66.109.10.17) 0.560 ms 0.440 ms 0.361

(snip traceroute - not really germane)

If you can reach a site by IP and not by name, the problem is usually
caused by incorrect DNS settings. If you have specific DNS settings
entered, try having them assigned dynamically. If they are already set
dynamically, then try using the router's IP address as the DNS. I
assume that you are using a router since you mention roommates.

Before you make the DNS changes, you might also want to do:
Start>Run>cmd [enter]
ipconfig /flushdns [enter]

Malke

 

[Guest]

Another possible cause is that browsers store history-entries by IP addres,
not DNS name. They also use the history as a sort of DNS cache to save
repeated lookups. Thus if the browser-history contains an incorrect entry for
these sites, then there will be no DNS lookup and the browser will keep
repeating the same mistake until the history entry is either manually
cleared, or times-out.