Re: Reinstall IE6 in W2000

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A note of thanks to Robert and others who assisted.

The situation seems to have been resolved by creating a new user profile.

The old profile was apparently corrupt (have not been able to repair it yet)
but was able to migrate the settings from the corrupt profile to the new
profile by using KB 811151.

Again, thank you.

Tom Gunby


"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Tom W. Gunby" <gunby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Robert -

I endeavored to post the message below yesterday morning but it did not
appear in the thread so I am re-posting it.

Robert -

If I understand your comment "The intent of the ping -n 1
www.etax.dor.ga.gov ...", executing "ping -n 1 etax.dor.ga.gov" should
load
the lookup for the canonical name into dnscache and possibly assist IE6
in
loading the page?


That's what it looks like for me. YMMV. ; )



Again this morning, I am working from home on the XP Pro Machine that IS
able to reach www.etax.dor.ga.gov in IE6 - however, no new entries
appear in
dnscache (according to ipconfig / displaydns) subsequent to executing
the
"ping -n 1 etax.dor.ga.gov" command (which times out). Why does no new
entry appear in dnscache after executing "ping -n 1 etax.dor.ga.gov"?


Is your cmd buffersize big enough that it isn't wrapping?
Perhaps you should be capturing the displaydns output instead?
(especially if you have an extensive HOSTS file always loaded)

ipconfig /displaydns >displaydns.txt
and then
notepad displaydns.txt



Approximately 20 entries are shown when executing "ipconfig /displaydns"
on
the XP Pro machine and they all appear to be redirects caused by the MVP
Hosts file which is loaded on the XP Pro computer.

Executing "ipconfig / flushdns" processes "successfully" but the 20 or
so
entries remain, which I understand is caused by them being specified in
the
Hosts file.

Is there a way to completely flush the dnscache while the Hosts file is
active?

I assume one could remain Hosts to something like Hosts.tmp, reboot,


I doubt if you have to reboot.


flush dnscache,


Stop there. Renaming and flushing would have cleared it.


rename Hosts.tmp back to Hosts, reboot, and have a "clean"
dnscache but that seems a long work-around.


Clean in what way? HOSTS would be loaded again then.



Is there an easier way to flush the dnscache totally?


Try just renaming and flushing.



Thank you.

Tom


Good luck

Robert
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