Help me to access all web sites from my browser

[AZBMAN]

Recently, for no apparent reason I cannot access some sites on my 98SE box. There is no rhyme or reason to the sites that I cannot access. In yahoo, I can't get to weather.yahoo.com. I have a home network w/a router and 4 port switch.
I am able to access the sites that I have trouble with from ALL other PC's on my network.
I moved the network cable to a different port, but the problem remains. I run ZoneAlarm and disabled it to make sure that it was not creating this issue. I tried netscape 4.79-6.02 & IE 6.0 with the same results.
Also removed NIC card & TCP/IP and re-installed with the same problem.
I can ping some of the sites not accesible, but cannot get them to load from a browser.
Any & all help will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

AZBMAN

 

[Scootin159]

That definitaly falls under the weird category.

If you can ping the sites, we know that your TCP/IP, DNS, Router & Firewall are setup correctly. If you tried 3 different browsers it pretty well removes the browser issue as well.

Sorry I couldn't help...

 

[Wolfie]

I got a question for you. This may or may not help.
Under IE... Go to
tools/internet options
Go under the options tab.
Under Use HTTP 1.1 is this checked?

Let us know if you still get errors. Aslo, Make sure the settings (all the settings) are the same for each computer.

Wolfie

 

[Scootin159]

Yeah, could you give us a description of what the error is exactly? Is it the typical cannot find server, or what?

 

[richleader]

It could be that your web provider's DNS server is overloaded, meaning there's too many users on it. That means it can't transform your URL requests (www.x.com) into IP numbers (64.192.81.40), so no *new* pages for you. If your other computer had recently been to those sites, it would have the IPs cached so it would appear that they are working normally as you could access them. So try accessing a page that you would never normally access (so it's not cached) during one of these outages on each machine to see for sure.

 

[AZBMAN]

Yes the option for HTTP 1.1 is checked. This happens on all browsers that i have installed, netscape 4.79-6.0 and IE 6.

 

[AZBMAN]

Its the typical could not locate the page type of error. I can ping most of the sites, but still cannot access them using 3 different browsers.
A buddy told me to try to use a diferent NIC card since the router goes off of the MAC address of the card ti issue a DHCP IP address.
It still drives me nuts since it used to work and I have not made any changes to the network or router settings.

 

[AZBMAN]

I cleaned the cache on all of the browsers, but it still does not work. I can access any site from any other PC.
I may just try to change out the NIC card and see if it does anything.