[TriLUG] what is blocking a website in winxp?

[Neil L. Little]

I think you can query the DNS using...LOOKLNS from CMD on a winders machine.
That might not be right. Its been a while.

Carl Crider wrote:
> Have you checked the HOSTS file? Also check for a hidden copy of it.
> Sounds like a case of xx_ware to me. I second looking at DNS on the
> box Vs your laptop. Clean the machine ASAP.
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> On 4/21/09, James Jones <jc.jones at tuftux.com> wrote:
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>> All,
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>> A friend of mine has a winxp-home pc with sp-3 installed. Using any of
>> 3 browsers, ( opera, IE6, firefox ), she cannot go to one website that
>> she used to visit regularly. She receives a timeout. I can hook my
>> laptop into her network and using any browser on either winxp or
>> ubuntu, I can access the website with no problem.
>>
>> From her winxp, I can ping the site and do a tracert to the site with
>> no problem.
>>
>> I can disable her norton anti-virus and windows firewall and there is
>> no change. There are no entries in restricted areas of ie, no entries
>> in hosts file.
>>
>> I have even tried to use the system restore, but system restore is
>> always incomplete -- no changes.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> The website is http://www.healthjobsusa.com  ( she is looking for a
>> nursing job and needs to connect ).
>>
>> If I don't have a solution soon, I guess I can always install ubuntu
>> as a dual boot so she can get to the site --
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