Some websites blocked

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I have ADSL and tri-boot my system under Windows Me,
Win2000, & XP. With Me & Win2000 I use RASPPPOE and under
XP I use the broadband connection wizard.

Things have been fine for the past year or more until
recently. Under Me & 2000 I can access all sites but under
XP I'm unable to access www.adobe.com and www.myrealbox.com

I've disabled my firewall software (Agnitum Outpost Pro)
and virus checker (AVG), I've installed RASPPPOE on XP,
installed Netscape 7.1 and no change.

I have opened Internet Explorer, gone to Tools, selected
Internet Options, on the General tab clicked Delete
Cookies, Delete Files and deleted all offline content and
cleared History. And checked under the Privacy tab that
there are no sites in the list as blocked.

I can ping some sites but not all - the request times out.

I have all the latest updates for XP.

As I tri-boot my system and everything is fine under
Windows Me & Windows 2000, the only item which I can
isolate is Windows XP itself.

I am at loss as to what could be the cause of my problem
and it is very frustrating.
 
Open the HOST file and see if it has any entries that may
be blocking adobe and myrealbox.com. The HOST file
doesn't have an extension. Open Notepad first and click
File | Open and browse for the HOST file that is located
in the C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC directory.

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Eric
 
Sorry, I forgot to mention that I had already checked the
HOSTS files.

Windows Me HOSTS file on partition D: has one entry
127.0.0.1 and the Windows 2000 HOSTS file on partition E:
has the same single entry 127.0.0.1 and there is no HOSTS
file on the Windows XP system on partition F:
 
Don't feel bad when you ping a website that you receive
Request Time Out. As long as you can reach adobe you're
fine. You should at least be able to reach adobe.com, but
you probably won't be able to access java.sun.com either.
All of these websites start with an ip address 192.x.x.x.
I take it that you have DHCP present.

Go through all the old settings and make sure that if you
have any 192.168.*.* IP addresses that the subnet mask is
something of the form 255.255.255.*. If you have any
other 192.*.*.* addresses set up on your system, change
them to real private addresses. Try turning off the
autodetect of proxy settings unless your ISP has
specifically told you to enable it.

To turn it off open Internet Explorer, go to Tools and
then click Internet Options. Click the 'Connections' tab
and click the "LAN Settings" button. Also, clear your
Temporary Internet Files and Cookies and then try to
restart Internet Explorer and see if you can reach these
sites.

_________________
Eric
 
I had static IP address of 192.168.0.1 with submask
255.0.0.0 applied to my network card. Changing the mask to
255.255.255.0 resolved the issue, but instead I've
assigned 10.0.0.3 as the static IP address with submask
255.0.0.0 and all is well now.

Thank you mvery much for your help...you were spot on!
 
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