OT:Strange network bug..

David E. Gervais · #1 January 11th, 2003, 05:11 PM

Hi,

My brother and I have just ran into a strange event regarding browsing the net..

info,.. We are both connected to the net through a hub, but we both connect indipendantly through the DSL. We are both running WinXP.

There is one site (http://www.cogeco.com) that I have no problems connecting to, but he is unable to make a connection to this site. wtf? he has no problems going to any other site, just this one. How can that be?

We've been checking through all the different network and IE settings and as far as I can tell we have identical settings!

We both log on and I can go to the site, when he tries he gets the "page cannot be displayed" message.

I really am perplexed, has anyone had this kind of wierd problem? Do you have any suggestions?

Any help would be apprieciated.

Thanks!

[ January 11, 2003, 20:26: Message edited by: David Gervais ]

BBegemott · #2 January 11th, 2003, 05:51 PM

I have experienced smth similar. There are sites which I can open with Internet Explorer, but I can't do this with Opera7 and vice versa. I have two internet browsers installed on my PC. I suggest that Your brother should try the same.

Suicide Junkie · #3 January 11th, 2003, 06:41 PM

One possibility is a Hosts file "hosts." (no extension) in your windows directory.

That files lists addresses and fixes the IPs associated with them.

I, for example, use it to redirect sites I hate to an incorrect IP address, so they don't load.

AS of SA · #4 January 11th, 2003, 06:59 PM

IE under windows XP has all kinds of annoying security stuff in it. Check your internet settings. It could be blocking a site or IP.

geoschmo · #5 January 11th, 2003, 07:03 PM

It could be a DNS thing. Different ISP's use different DNS servers for domain resolution. THe one your bros ISP is using could be having problems. If this is the problem you would both be able to reach the site by typing the IP address in your browser instead of the www. address.

Geoschmo

Thermodyne · #6 January 11th, 2003, 07:14 PM

If I understand this, you share the DSL connection. The site could be preventing the page from being viewed because it has already set a cookie on that Physical address (The DSL modem). You have the cookie, he does not.

David E. Gervais · #7 January 11th, 2003, 07:59 PM

Hi, no luck so far, I tried all your suggestions and even a few tricks from other sources.

fyi: each and every time I or my brother loggs-on to the net, Sympatico assigns a new IP for each computer. I tried typing the IP reported on my computer for cogeco.com in my brother's computer browser but it still fails to load the page. I looked and noticed that I had 2 cookies for www.cogeco.com and he had none, I had him copy my cookies to his comp, and rename the David to Ken and tried connecting, it took longer to display the error but still could not be displayed.

Ah well, such is yet one more mystery linked to Microsoft. Other than being really annoying, the 'bug' is not crittical, so we're gonna let it slide.

Thanks for all your suggestions and help.

Have a Great Day. Cheers!

AS of SA · #8 January 11th, 2003, 08:10 PM

Call your ISP and chain them to your computer until they fix it.

Suicide Junkie · #9 January 11th, 2003, 08:16 PM

Sympatico people tend to hang up on you as soon as they hear you've got a hub or a router.

geoschmo · #10 January 11th, 2003, 08:35 PM

David, I am not talking about the IP for your computers. Those will change each time you log in. But the IP for the website you are visiting shold not ever change. Sorry I can't tell you exactly how to get that number. I don't know enough abou thtis stuff. I just know a couple of months ago when the internet had some DNS problems with hackers attacking the DNS servers some people could get to PBW fine and some couldn't. But anyone who typed in the IP address of the PBW server got through fine.

Geoschmo