IE url line works only with ip address

joey · Post by **joey** » Fri May 28, 2004 11:54 am

win98 machine - IE ver 5.5 , getting "cant display this page" when i use url with http://www.xxxx
but it is working fine when i enter the ip of this http://www.xxxx
appteciate your help

Brk · Post by **Brk** » Fri May 28, 2004 11:56 am

Well for one thing, it's not a complete URL.

joey · Post by **joey** » Fri May 28, 2004 12:03 pm

Burke wrote:Well for one thing, it's not a complete URL.

by the http://www.xxxxx i meant any url

ScottE · Post by **ScottE** » Fri May 28, 2004 1:39 pm

DNS is foobared. The IP address might not be correct in the network settings for the DNS server.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Fri May 28, 2004 2:05 pm

Go to Start\Find\Files or Folders\ and search for HOSTS
Find a file called HOSTS and see if there's anything in it.
Possible that a worm created this file and entered a line so your local isp DNS server points to localhost.

Also try running the IE repair tool.

stevejrc · Post by **stevejrc** » Fri May 28, 2004 6:57 pm

I saw a link below in the security forum about firewall access, might help:

http://www.blackviper.com/AskBV/tech4.htm

"A big one is "DNS Lookups" and HTTP. With DNS lookups disabled, you will no longer be able to type in "www.blackviper.com" but you will always be able to type in the IP address of the systems..."

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Sat May 29, 2004 7:58 am

May want to groom through your system with an ad/spyware removal tool...such as Pepki's Spybot Search and Destroy, and/or Lavasoft AdAware.

Install and update each one..and scan, remove what's found. Could have some DNS redirectors like newdotnet, or some other wild tangent junk in there.