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Nothing to see here, move along... Windows TCPIP thing, (not 'help determine...')

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dman

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SUMMARY: This Link causes the following Dialogue Box on 2/3 PC's at my house. Errr... the third can't even get to the domain/page not found. See explanation below... it's odd Windows TCPIP stuff...
 
Link is above, see the 'http' thing, that triggers the UserID/PW box on my PC.

Some more investigating, my ISP uses a webmail server by the same company on that page, so, might have a 'cookie' on my PC that is triggering this, but, it also happened on my wife's pc and I've never accessed MY ISP's mail from there (she uses aol). Very very odd.

Fuestalk format Link for you, to the jpg here
 
Originally posted by: KingNothing
The link to the JPG is it? Site doesn't come up for me, which I guess you've observed already.
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Right, on my laptop it does nothing. On my two desktops it opens a webmail like dialogue box, title says the first part of the page it's accessing, but has mail.(ISPNAME).net in the body and a userid/pw box. I think it's a bug/behavoir of the webmail software--but not sure.

My ISP uses the same webmail as the root of that site... http://www.wpascanner.f2s.com

link

But the root page doesn't trigger a separate dialogue box, only the jpg does... I'll capture a pic and upload to pics.bbzzdd.com so youall can see what I mean.
 
That's what the third PC gets... hmmm.. maybe domain is blocked since the 3rd pc goes through work VPN.
 
OK, it's a Windows thing, has to do with domain suffix being appended. If I ping www.wpascanner.f2s.com, windows resolves it to www.wpascanner.f2s.com.<myisp>.com

Checking the TCPIP Properties for DNS for the machine that didn't have the problem and the one that did, the setting for 'append primary and connection specific DNS' is NOT enabled on the PC that can't resolve it, and is on the one that can.

IOW, on my laptop it has 'Append these dns suffixes (in' checked and a domain name of my office. And it can't resolve the IP... so it's a windows / TCPIP behavior thing and just odd. Thanks for your time.
 
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