Re: Can't see external website...

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From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 09/21/04


Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:09:18 -0500

In news:2cfc01c49fc6$a0593b80$a501280a@phx.gbl,
Martin <klompen_sin@hotmail.com> wrote their comments
Then Kevin replied below:
> Ok... Try this: ping www.lyngenplast.com , you will get
> an IP who is 195.159.29.93. Then start Internet Explorer
> or an other netbrowser, and write this IP in the adress
> field. You will get an answer in norwegian that this site
> is parked, and there are no homesite at this place.Can I
> still use the WWW entry? And what scould I put in there?
> The Ip of the external nameserver? Or the WWW adress?
> Maybe this is silly questions...

The reason you don't get your website is because the server uses host
headers. If you want to connect to your website you have to send the host
header name. Create the www record with the IP then run ipconfig /flushdns
to flush the cache and remove the negative answer in the DNS client cache.

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