My IP cannot get resolved

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I am running IIS on my windows 2000 server at home.

One week agao, I was able to browse my test web pages by both
http://localhost/somepage.aspx or http://1.2.3.4/somepage.aspx,
pretending that 1.2.3.4 is my IP. I could do this both from my windows
2000 server box itself or from other computers at school.

Now I could only browse my test pages via
http://localhost/somepage.aspx. It fails if I try using the IP
address instead. I am sure I have the correct IP address, although I
use DSL which does not promise a static IP. Anyway, this is
irrelevant. Even if it is a dynamic IP address, I do have an IP
address at a particular point of time, and which can be easily figured
out.

I am not able to ping my computer from school either.

What is the problem? What do I need to check?
 
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I am running IIS on my windows 2000 server at home.

One week agao, I was able to browse my test web pages by both
http://localhost/somepage.aspx or http://1.2.3.4/somepage.aspx,
pretending that 1.2.3.4 is my IP. I could do this both from my
windows 2000 server box itself or from other computers at school.

Now I could only browse my test pages via
http://localhost/somepage.aspx. It fails if I try using the IP
address instead. I am sure I have the correct IP address, although I
use DSL which does not promise a static IP. Anyway, this is
irrelevant. Even if it is a dynamic IP address, I do have an IP
address at a particular point of time, and which can be easily figured
out.

I am not able to ping my computer from school either.

What is the problem? What do I need to check?
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Unless I'm misunderstanding something basic here, I don't understand how a
dynamic IP, meaning that it changes on a regular basis, cannot be relevant?
If it changes, and you know what it changed to, then I would use the new
address. Have you checked to see if it changed?

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I am running IIS on my windows 2000 server at home.

One week agao, I was able to browse my test web pages by both
http://localhost/somepage.aspx or http://1.2.3.4/somepage.aspx,
pretending that 1.2.3.4 is my IP. I could do this both from my windows
2000 server box itself or from other computers at school.
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No, you could NOT browse your server from a different machine
using http://localhost unless you have gone in and created an incorrect
record in your hosts file. (And even then some machines have 'localhost'
hardcoded in the IP stack.)

Why are you obfuscating your IP? If it is public then it is public
and if it is private no one can reach it anyway.

Now I could only browse my test pages via
http://localhost/somepage.aspx. It fails if I try using the IP
address instead.
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These symptoms ONLY make sense if you are trying this
from the SAME machine.

It then indicates that your IP/NIC is not working or correct on
the network, but that IP did initialize and is allowing you to
connect from the same machine.

Can you ping?

Show us you REAL "ipconfig /all" -- do not type it in, copy and
paste it (or send to a file and pasted) and please do not post any
graphic screen images but give us the TEXT.
I am sure I have the correct IP address, although I
use DSL which does not promise a static IP. Anyway, this is
irrelevant. Even if it is a dynamic IP address, I do have an IP
address at a particular point of time, and which can be easily figured
out.

I am not able to ping my computer from school either.

What is the problem? What do I need to check?
Click to expand...

If the IP is dynamic you are going to need a way to track the
changing number. (Registering with a dynamic dns service like
dyndns.net is one way.)
 
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