Internet Explorer 6 Home Page

[Guest]

I have my home page set in Internet Explorer 6 to this site

http://www.digiscrapdesigner.com/forums/

When I try to connect to the home page, it defaults to www.google.ca. It
almost appears that the browser been set to redirect and I have no idea how
it could have happened.

I am running Windows XP SP2

Any help to repair this would be appreciated.

 

[PA Bear]

Is it a new(er) Dell machine? Is Google Toolbar/Desktop Search installed?

Does this behavior persist if you set your homepage to, e.g.,
http://www.microsoft.com ??

 

[rlsmallster]

Hey did you take a look at your hosts file to see if there have been
any changes made to it?

Typically this is located in the following directory "C:\WINDOWS
\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" The file should have localhost set to
127.0.0.1
and any line with a '#' in front of it is ignored as a comment line.
If you have other IP addresses or if you see the one you keep getting
sent to then you will have to manually change this. Oh and I almost
forgot to mention that you will need to view the file using Notepad.
I hope this helps.

Bob

 

[karuna]

Hey there - same thing has happened to me this week too! I am going crazy
trying to figure it out - I just need my fix of digiscrapdesigner forums and
tutorials! Please, please, if you managed to sort anything out - can you
help me?
Many thanks
Karuna

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Hey there - same thing has happened to me this week too!

That could be a symptom of DNS problem along with a good-intentioned
but non-standard service from your ISP when such a problem occurs.

E.g. check with nslookup if your DNS has a lookup for that sitename.
Note also that it may be an alias of its domain name which you would
also have to have a lookup for:

<nslookup>
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: digiscrapdesigner.com
Address: 70.86.28.230
Aliases: www.digiscrapdesigner.com
</nslookup>

In addition you could use nslookup in its interactive mode with debug set
to see how this lookup is actually done by your DNS.

I am going crazy
trying to figure it out - I just need my fix of digiscrapdesigner forums and
tutorials! Please, please, if you managed to sort anything out - can you
help me?

Can you ping -n 1 both the sitename and its domain name?
It's just the lookups that you are interested in. Though, as it happens
both names do respond to the pings:

<cmd_output>
F:\>ping -n 1 www.digiscrapdesigner.com

Pinging digiscrapdesigner.com [70.86.28.230] with 32 bytes of data:


F:\>ping -n 1 digiscrapdesigner.com

Pinging digiscrapdesigner.com [70.86.28.230] with 32 bytes of data:
</cmd_output>


Then check with ipconfig /displaydns that you have an A (Host) record
cached for the domain name for its IP address:

<displaydns>
digiscrapdesigner.com
----------------------------------------
Record Name . . . . . : digiscrapdesigner.com
Record Type . . . . . : 1
Time To Live . . . . : 14016
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
A (Host) Record . . . : 70.86.28.230
</displaydns>

If none of these lookups are working for you, you should notify your ISP
about the problem with their DNS and add a record to your HOSTS file
as a temporary workaround:

<HOSTS>
70.86.28.230 www.digiscrapdesigner.com
</HOSTS>


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---

 

[karuna via WindowsKB.com]

Nope its nothing so techy at all though thanks for your input!
It seems that I had a problem with my paypal account resulting in an unpaid
product with mentioned website so I was barred until it is resolved - which
it is.
So there you go MARLIE - check you haven't got any outstanding payments to
DSD. Problem solved.
K

Hey there - same thing has happened to me this week too!

That could be a symptom of DNS problem along with a good-intentioned
but non-standard service from your ISP when such a problem occurs.

E.g. check with nslookup if your DNS has a lookup for that sitename.
Note also that it may be an alias of its domain name which you would
also have to have a lookup for:

<nslookup>
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: digiscrapdesigner.com
Address: 70.86.28.230
Aliases: www.digiscrapdesigner.com
</nslookup>

In addition you could use nslookup in its interactive mode with debug set
to see how this lookup is actually done by your DNS.

I am going crazy
trying to figure it out - I just need my fix of digiscrapdesigner forums and
tutorials! Please, please, if you managed to sort anything out - can you
help me?

Can you ping -n 1 both the sitename and its domain name?
It's just the lookups that you are interested in. Though, as it happens
both names do respond to the pings:

<cmd_output>
F:\>ping -n 1 www.digiscrapdesigner.com

Pinging digiscrapdesigner.com [70.86.28.230] with 32 bytes of data:

F:\>ping -n 1 digiscrapdesigner.com

Pinging digiscrapdesigner.com [70.86.28.230] with 32 bytes of data:
</cmd_output>

Then check with ipconfig /displaydns that you have an A (Host) record
cached for the domain name for its IP address:

<displaydns>
digiscrapdesigner.com
----------------------------------------
Record Name . . . . . : digiscrapdesigner.com
Record Type . . . . . : 1
Time To Live . . . . : 14016
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
A (Host) Record . . . : 70.86.28.230
</displaydns>

If none of these lookups are working for you, you should notify your ISP
about the problem with their DNS and add a record to your HOSTS file
as a temporary workaround:

<HOSTS>
70.86.28.230 www.digiscrapdesigner.com
</HOSTS>

Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---

Many thanks
Karuna

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