IE 6 SP2 Problem:

[Chip]

Can anyone help on this? I'm running IE 6 on Windows XP
(SP2). PC configured with Norton Security 2003 and a SMC
Barricade router. Everything has been fine for over a
year; just in the last few days, *almost* every time I
try going to a new URL, I get the following message:

The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

The only solution I've stumbled on is to keep hitting the
refresh button; but that isn't really solving the
underlying problem. Any ideas??

Thanks in advance.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Can anyone help on this? I'm running IE 6 on Windows XP
(SP2). PC configured with Norton Security 2003 and a SMC
Barricade router. Everything has been fine for over a
year; just in the last few days, *almost* every time I
try going to a new URL, I get the following message:

The page cannot be displayed
The page you are looking for is currently unavailable.

The only solution I've stumbled on is to keep hitting the
refresh button; but that isn't really solving the
underlying problem. Any ideas??

Look at the Status bar for clues about what is happening.
Even better would be to do some packet tracing to see what
is happening. If you have XP Pro you can use netcap from
its Support Tools to do that.

Test to see if your DNS is the problem.
E.g. before going to a site make sure that your dnscache has
that name and address available for a quicker lookup.
To do that you could ping -n 1 the server name (not for the ping
response but for the lookup to be done and the lookup cached.)
You could also issue an nslookup for the server name; that might
cache in the DNS server but does not get cached locally.

Doing that might at least get the HTML loaded. If there was a problem
with the DNS in general you might then still see Red-X for images from
other sites that the page loads from.

Thanks in advance.

Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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