At 06:48 PM 4/29/01 -0400, e_johnston wrote the following:
>My Windows 98 works fine while browsing. I am not able to open one specific
>server. The person has three web sites with accesswav.ca and I cannot open
>any of them. My computer says....Not Found.
>I have even disconnected my Zone Alarm briefly but it didn't help.
>Are there some setting I could change in Windows?
>The three sites are:
>www.accesswave.ca/~tvor/family.html
> http://www.accesswave.ca/~tvor/
> http://www.accesswave.ca/~tvor/index.html
I can reach all 3 sites myself, so no network or domain name problems.
Do you have a HOSTS file? NOT hosts.sam or host.txt but just plain HOSTS.
Usually found in C:\WINDOWS
If so, check it for lines like
127.0.0.1 accesswave.ca
127.0.0.1 is called the loopback address and is used by a PC to refer back
to itself. We can also add IP address and names to eliminate a DNS lookup.
That is, the domain name servers translate a name like accesswave.ca to its
IP address. The nslookup program does a similar thing.
no2:/opt2/home3/expita>nslookup accesswave.ca
Server: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1
Name: accesswave.ca
Address: 24.138.0.20
If I wanted to speed up my PCs access to accesswave.ca I could put this line
in the HOSTS file:
24.138.0.20 accesswave.ca
In this manner, every time I wanted to access the site accesswave.ca my
HOSTS file would give the immediate IP address and I would go directly their
without having to do an reverse domain name lookup (find IP address of site
using a DNS).
However, if I wanted to BLOCK access to the site, then I would associate the
loopback IP address with the site name and I never would be able to contact
the web site.
127.0.0.1 accesswave.ca
Another thing to try is to change the tilde "~" to its hexadecimal character
representation. Some browsers and the character sets set up for the
Windows version you may be using don't translate properly. The hex
representation always works. Hex for tilde is %7E. So try
http://www.accesswave.ca/%7etvor/
And another thing to check.
Do you have such high security that the sites are blocked in IE?
Tools -- Internet options -- Security tab
Click on Trusted Sites and Restricted Sites to see if accesswave.ca is
listed. If so, remove it.
Likewise, the Internet zone may be Security level may have Custom setting.
Try clicking on Default level.
See Help -- Index --Security -- Setting Security levels for more info.
Do you have an expired cookie and your security is such that you cannot get
a new one?
Go to the Tools/Internet Options/Security menu. In there, you can
choose the security level for 4 different browsing conditions: Internet
Sites, Local Sites, "Trusted" Sites, and Restricted Sites. If you select
"Internet," and click on Custom Level, you'll get a dialog box where you can
accept all, warn before accepting, or reject all cookies.
Is the "Not Found" message a 404 error?
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Gerry Boyd -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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