Display problems with certain websites II

[Pete d'Oronzio [pdmagic]]

addon's. >> START - ACCESSORIES - SYSTEM TOOLS - Internet explorer
[no add-ons]


Hmm. is UAC on ?
Run your machine thru www.GRC.com Shields up and see how your
machine fares with that. It'll test your firewall connection
specific to JUST you.

And that's another thought. Other than me, it doesn't seem like
you're getting much help in this group. I had the same problem
with the ATI NG. Everyone had problems but no solutions.

Try setting your news reader to news.grc.com. the name and password
should be 1 and the same. then jump into the grc.techtalk group.

I try not to over use that ng. But I can't recall not getting a fix
from that group.

When I first installed 6 months ago I turned UAC off immediately.
SInce then, with the full wipe and reinstall, as well as install on
this new machine, I left UAC on. (however my account has
administrative privs)

www.grc.com had nothing to complain about except that it could ping
my gateway. green lights everywhere.

I'll have a look at that newgroup,because you are right - not much
info coming through here except for you. (though I've had dozens of
reads on the web page I posted. but no comments)

Thanks a lot for your time.

-Pete

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[keepout]

www.grc.com had nothing to complain about except that it could ping
my gateway. green lights everywhere.

I'll have a look at that newgroup,because you are right - not much
info coming through here except for you. (though I've had dozens of
reads on the web page I posted. but no comments)

I'm just passing you on to experts. I'm done. no more clues. Unless by chance you went and installed auslogics boost speed.
I've been offline for the past 18 hours till I figured out it was that causing the trouble.

I'm still hunting the 'add to my hosts' thing it added. I removed the program, it's like a sick vampire. It won't stay down.
weatherbug was like that. And there was no uninstall. Same thing here with auslogics boost speed. No uninstall if it fails.

 

[keepout]

I'll have a look at that newgroup,because you are right - not much
info coming through here except for you. (though I've had dozens of
reads on the web page I posted. but no comments)

Hmm. one last thought this boost speed for some reason created a 2nd network. I have to assume that's what it's been working on for the past 18 hours.
I deleted that 2nd network.

in your tray, network - network & sharing center. See if you don't have several networks beating each other to pieces.
Hmm... Isn't that exactly what you said the problem is ? 2 or more networks ?
Still no help. with me it's a no brainer. local Internet ONLY. anything else is waste.
You may need more help.

 

[Pete d'Oronzio [pdmagic]]

Is this the article you saw? It might be relevant:

Windows Vista cannot obtain an IP address from certain routers or
from certain non-Microsoft DHCP servers->
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/en-us

Thank you so much for locating this. I don't know why I couldn't
find it again. Yes, this is the article.

I tried making that registry change, and rebooting and trying again.
Didn't help though.

I've had it pointed out to me that *all* the resources that I can't
get to (90% of the time) are located on addresses like
i2.microsoft.com. They all resolve back to an address at akamai.net.
(i.e. a1475.g.akamai.net)

My dns sometimes finds this address, sometimes doesn't. My ISP also
points out that the TTL on these alias entries is something like 30
seconds and require 4 hops to resolve.

I don't know if this gets me anywhere, but doing a search on
"akamai.net dns problem" gets me a lot more useful hits than anything
else I've tried.

Thanks again.

-Pete

 

[dean-dean]

Well, you could try this, if you haven't already; that is, type in Command
Prompt, as Administrator,

ipconfig /flushdns

to flush the DNS resolver cache. Sometimes a bad DNS entry will be cached,
and you will need to either flush the DNS cache to get rid of it, or wait up
to 24 hours for it to be dropped from the cache automatically.

 

[Pete d'Oronzio [pdmagic]]

SOLVED!

After following lots of advice here and from my ISP, I narrowed the
problem down to my in-house DNS server. (pointing my Vista machine's
DNS directly to my ISP made the system work properly, which is what
made me focus on the DNS server) From there, I narrowed it to the
drivers for my Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit cards.

The drivers I had installed (probably what shipped with the card)
were v6.34.4.0 dated 4/17/03. I updated them to v10.24d dated 2/1/07
(Dec 06 on the actual driver)

This has completely solved the problem.

Thanks to everyone here who helped and made suggestions.

-Pete

 

[keepout]

SOLVED!

After following lots of advice here and from my ISP, I narrowed the
problem down to my in-house DNS server. (pointing my Vista machine's
DNS directly to my ISP made the system work properly, which is what
made me focus on the DNS server) From there, I narrowed it to the
drivers for my Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit cards.

The drivers I had installed (probably what shipped with the card)
were v6.34.4.0 dated 4/17/03. I updated them to v10.24d dated 2/1/07
(Dec 06 on the actual driver)

This has completely solved the problem.

Thanks to everyone here who helped and made suggestions.

Well I was way off. Cept for the last, forwarding you to experts.

 

[Pete d'Oronzio [pdmagic]]

Well I was way off. Cept for the last, forwarding you to experts.

Everything helped. It was all a process of elimination. Thanks!

-Pete

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