Re: IE won't load only my website
From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 06/20/04
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Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 23:29:23 -0500
"Sked" <Sked@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> IE will no longer load my website www.jerseyspeedskiffs.com when
> trying to connect via my Comcast broadband connection. None of the
> individual pages from my site will load either. My website host's
> home pages originate from the same place and load with no problem as
> do all other websites I've gone to. My host is westlin.com and they
> inform me they have not had any problems with their equipment and
> their Apache server has not had any down time. I've run a ping on DOS
> as well as a tracert and everything looks good there. (63ms average
> time for ping return and 16 hops on the trace route with no
> discernible lags there) I've also done all the usual stuff such as
> clearing cache & history, deleting cookies, run PestPatrol,
> restarted, etc., more than a couple of times with no improvements.
> Since I use my website as my home page, I tried changing my homepage
> and typing my website into the address bar, but that doesn't work
> either. I've tried running the repair on IE and received no notice of
> any problem there. I've also run Configsafe and went back two days
> before I started experiencing a problem. I can however get my site to
> come up without any problems and fully navigate it if I use AOL. I
> believe the AOL connection still must run through Comcast to a point
> and I think the AOL still runs through IE so I'm totally lost as to
> why IE alone will no longer load just my website. Since I could
> access my site via AOL, I went into the sites control panel to check
> if there were any IP addresses on the ban IP address list and there
> were none as there should not have been any anyway. The reason I did
> this was to see if maybe someone had hacked my site and put my IP
> address in the ban list or something but everything appeared normal.
> Since Comcast uses a constant IP address verses AOL's variable IP
> address this seemed like a valid reason to check.
> I just tried accessing my website using my daughters computer which
> is connected to the same modem and router as mine and my site comes
> up immediately without any problems navigating using just IE.
> I'm running Windows 98 SE, IE 6, AOL 5.0
> Anyone have any thoughts on where to look or what to do to resolve
> this issue?
> Thanks in advance, Sked
Check for a file named HOSTS with no extension (not Hosts.sam). It may be a
hidden file. Open it with Notepad and remove any line referencing the site.
Or, rename HOSTS to OLDHOSTS
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