This is wierd...Browser error for site that router can ping?

[sixone]

I'm trying to get to a website, but my browser says the site can't be found. So I go to my router diagnostics, and ping the address:

5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 77.9/78.9/79.8 ms

So my router can see the site, but my browser can't? I'm using Netscape primarily, but IE errors as well. No problems with any other site that I've tried to access.

 

[WMA]

When you ping or tracert an address you are just getting the machine that houses the webserver that serves the page. That said you may have been getting replies but that just means the machine is operational. The page could have been removed or the webserver service may not be running.

Make sense?

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: WMA
When you ping or tracert an address you are just getting the machine that houses the webserver that serves the page. That said you may have been getting replies but that just means the machine is operational. The page could have been removed or the webserver service may not be running.

Make sense?

Yes. If a person on another ISP can access the page, while I can't, is there anything I can do?

 

[nweaver]

not really...at some point, someone is dropping port 80 traffic between you (but not all, if ping works)

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: nweaver
not really...at some point, someone is dropping port 80 traffic between you (but not all, if ping works)

That's what I was afraid of. Thanks.

 

[spidey07]

try telneting to port 80 on the host (web page address)

telnet www.cnn.com 80

and type
GET

If you get a response you have full connectivity to the site and it is probabably the URL is wrong or the page itself is blocking your request