The download server can only check the nationality of your client
by doing a reverse-DNS lookup to get the domain. Anything not registered
in DNS will fail.
I have no explanation for the failures on clients which are registered;
perhaps a DNS misconfiguration for these addresses?
> Please pardon this question as it is a bit off topic...
>
> We have a small firm with a subnet of 255 IP addresses. I note that I can
> only download 128 bit encryption patches (e.g. I.E) if the download site
> detects I'm in a US or Canadian area. This seems to work on some of the
> PC's on our subnet (the one's with registered DNS names -- although not ALL
> DNS-named PC's seem to be detected). And, on any other PC's on the
> subnet, we have no success being detected as a US location.
>
> Is there a network setting on W95 or NT that controls this? I have tried
> putting our DNS name under the TCP/IP properties of these non-server PC's,
> but that doesn't seem to do it.
>
> Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
>
> TIA
>
> Harry
>
>
>
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