Re: IE won't load only my website

From: Robert Aldwinckle (robald_at_techemail.com)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 06:56:42 -0400

> The canonical name (jerseyspeedskiffs.com) at first works, but after
> going through each link on the site one time it won't load those pages again.

There's a simple example of how that could happen.
Tab to your links and look at your Status bar before pressing Enter.
You will see the the link under the the graphic labeled:
"Click here for jerseyspeedskiffracing.com (the official website)"
leads you (ironically) to the www. site.

Another possibility could be that internally a page may be trying to load
using the alternate name (i.e., the www. alias), e.g. if the page is constructed
dynamically from a script file which is referenced using that alternate name.
In that case the page could not be rendered and the screen would appear
blank. Perhaps you would see Done in the Status bar. Then you should
use View Source to see if there is any sign of that case actually happening.

It would be best to have a packet sniffer to see exactly what all is going on
but you can also get some clues by closely watching the Status bar as the
loading is going on. You can help slow that down somewhat by running
other heavily CPU intensive tasks in the background. In fact you probably
could slow down the whole sequence by running another browser window
doing a large download or multimedia file in the background. Pressing
Ctrl-F5 can force a complete refresh which would also slow loading down
by requiring all those graphics to be downloaded again (which would check
that they have been loaded by the alternate name too.)

Another useful task to run in the background (again as a poor substitute
for a trace) would be a netstat command in a relatively quick loop:

    netstat -a -p tcp 5

(E.g. that would show you all current and residual TCP connections
continuously every 5 seconds. Press Ctrl-c to break the loop.)

I think that you have enough new information now to approach your
ISP and ask them for an explanation for your symptom.

BTW I was hoping for more feedback from my previous suggestions.
In particular I would be interested in knowing the results of adding your
own override into HOSTS for the lookup of the alias name.

Good luck

Robert 

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"Sked" <Sked@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:11B7F073-181A-4A43-A7BE-AAC1902D30EB@microsoft.com...
> Robert, you are probably on to something here. Some of what you suggested I could not check because of the way DOS works in my 
> Windows 98 SE verses the operating system you're using, however:
>
> My Primary DNS: ns5.westlin.com  207.70.170.70
> My Secondary DNS: ns6.westlin.com  207.70.190.10
>
> I'm not that knowledgeable in all this so I didn't fully comprehend everything you said, but let me throw out some more clues here 
> in hopes you or someone else may be able to pinpoint the problem.
> The first and most notable difference is the way in which my site comes up when I changed the name in the address bar to 
> jerseyspeedskiffs.com verses www.jerseyspeedskiffs.com. The canonical name (jerseyspeedskiffs.com) at first works, but after going 
> through each link on the site one time it won't load those pages again. The back button will take me back though. Changing the 
> address in the address bar back to the alias (www.jerseyspeedskiffs.com) sometimes makes it come up again, sometimes, maybe. It's 
> pretty darn screwy. Whenever I try accessing my site via a link from another website or a search engine, it won't come up. Again 
> this only happens when accessing MY website and not a problem if I use AOL.
> A correction on my earlier observations about using my daughters computer. Since I didn't spend much time on it at first when 
> everything seemed to be OK, I decided to go back and check more thoroughly for a problem. I've now found that her computer 
> experiences the same problem as mine and like mine has no problems if going through AOL.
> So now, where does all this leave me? Comcast problem? Router/modem problem?
> HOSTS.SAM file problem? The only deterrent to fully investigating the HOSTS files is that on my computer I inadvertently deleted 
> notepad some six to eight months ago so I'll have to work on getting that back or find an alternative for viewing those .sam 
> files. Even when I find out how to fix this mess the question that will remain is: how did all this happen in the first place.
> Please keep the suggestions and advice coming, I need all the help I can get.
> Thanks