[thelist] Site not available? - Resolved

Richard Bennett richard.bennett at skynet.be
Mon Sep 17 09:45:19 CDT 2001


Hi,
Thanks everyone for taking the time to help on this.
What finally resolved the problem, was setting the proxy server in IE.
It seems this bypasses the local DNS settings, so at least IE works as it
should now.

Richard.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Hassan Schroeder" <hassan at webtuitive.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2001 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Site not available? - Update


> Richard Bennett wrote:
>
> > Well it's set, but I don't know if the DNS server IP's are correct, I
tried
> > quite a few different ones advised on the net.
>
> "advised on the net"?? You should have name server IPs provided by
> your own ISP.
>
> > >You also might have extra default routes.
> > > On Windows 2000, multiple default routes can really be messy - not
> > > recommended.
> > ?? you mean not to use prefered and alternate? In Win2000 I could only
enter
> > 2 DNS IPs, unlike in winME/98 where I could enter many.
>
> 1) "default route" is also referred to as "default gateway", has
>    nothing to do with DNS, and yeah, you should probably only have
>    one.
>
> 2) Under Win2K the initial TCP/IP properties panel shows two DNS entry
>    spaces, but clicking the "Advanced" button gives you the option to
>    enter as many as you like.
>
> HTH!
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