Only seeing index page, no folders

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Dave Stevens

This is the second part to a message I posted last week.
I moved my office to a building that is using a satellite
internet connection. I am attempting to access a web site
on a NT 4.0 server, using FrontPage 2000 and XP. When I
was using a cable modem, I had no issues. On the satellite
connection, I can only open the index.html page, and I
have no folders, i.e. I am not actually on the server, as
I cannot save back to the server. If I attempt to access a
site on a Unix server, no issues. If I change my router to
Dynamic IP, which switches me over to a T1 connection, I
have no problems (I am not supposed to use that network).
Are there any DNS issues with satellite connections?
I have contacted the server admin, he has no answer for it.

Thanks ...
 
If it was a DNS issue you would never see the index page.
However, to eliminate the possibility, close FrontPage and
your browser.
Open a command window by clicking Start > Run and typing
cmd and clicking ok.
At the C:> cursor type: ipconfig /flushdns and press enter.
When it says it has cleared the dns cache close the command
window, reopen FrontPage and see what happens.
 
Satellite links have a lot of latency (delay) because of
the time it takes radio signals to reach the satellite and
return to Earth. (The speed of light is just too darned
slow.) This delay usually isn't enough to cause a
FrontPage time-out, but it's possible.

More likely, though, there's some sort of caching or proxy
server along the satellite link. You would need to pursue
this with the satellite link provider, or whoever in your
organization deals with them.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
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Many user prior to Windows 2000 running on Windows NT reported problems
trying to publish via FP and a Satellite connection. As far as I can
remember there were no solutions at the time.

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Dave.
Thought of this on the way home.
Open a command window and Ping the domain
via the satellite connection and see what the ttl
( time to live ) is for the ping results.

Then open it via the T1 and do the same.

It 's possible that you may have to increase the default
TTL by changing a registry setting.
The standard default is set at 64 milliseconds.
You may have to raise it to 128 or higher.
The setting is located in the registry at:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]"Defa
ultTTL"

There could also be the same settings:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]"DefaultT
TL"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\Tcpip\Parameters]"DefaultT
TL"
that would need changing too

hth
 
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