Have similar problem to William but with additional concerns.
Two of the computers (one W2000 SP4, one XP Home) on our small peer-to-peer
network are unable to access the website
www.etax.dor.ga.gov.
Two other computers on the same network (one W2000 SP4, one W98) are able to
access the website
www.etax.dor.ga.gov.
All machines are running IE6 and using a "basic" HOSTS file.
DNS cache has been flushed on each machine.
One of the "unable to access" machines has Mozilla Firefox installed and can
access
www.etax.dor.ga.gov through Firefox.
Sure would appreciate some assistance in resolving this situation with IE.
Thank you.
"Don Varnau" <don_04[at]varnau[dot]org> wrote in message
Hi,
See if these URLs are in your HOSTS file.
To check the HOSTS file in Windows XP...
From Folder Options> View, make sure that Windows is showing hidden files
and is not hiding file extensions for known file types then check for a
HOSTS file at [C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc]
Open the HOSTS file with notepad. If
there are entries you wish to disable, you can put the pound sign (#) in
front an entry to disable it. Then File> Save. Or you can rename the HOSTS
file to HOSTS.OLD to disable it.
In Win 9x, the file will be at [C:\Windows]
In Win 2K, the file will be at [C:\WINNT\System32\Drivers\etc]
Additional info at:
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts File:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
[WinXP]
Open s Cmd window (Start> Run> cmd) enter
ipconfig /flushdns
then clear the Temporary Internet Files and restart.
Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]
