1. I could not ping any host even google.com, but I can browse the internet without any problem. I dont know much about networking, so I dont know whats wrong with my DNS.
It looks like you are getting to the internet thorough proxy then. Can you send the exact output of ping google.com command? Also, please send ipconfig /all output (remove any sensitive data from there).
2. I dont get the IP address of the site I am downloading. If it is google.com I can get the IP address, but if it is something like google.com/something/something/something.zip then I dont get the IP address of that particular page.
The IP address is bound to the host, dude :) You should not be able to get the IP address of the particular page, as you are saying.
3. I tried setting the port no. 80 in my http_proxy. I tried setting it like wget -e http_proxy=.... but it didnt work. is this the right way I am setting??? actually i am trying to use a https site to download a zip file. for this do I need to use https option in wget , but I did not find any option in that to give user name and password. please help
I see. This makes a lot of sence now. Maybe your proxy is not working correctly with HTTPS? The options for user and password are --http-user and --http-password or just --user --password Also, you have mentioned that your XP machine is doing just fine. What is the difference between that machine and your Win2k3 server? Do they use different gateways? It looks like it has something to do with how networking is set up on that Win2k3 machine vs XP machine. Fi.
