XP pro (sometimes) cannot access webpages

[teash]

Hell0,

Our current setup has a web server running Windows NT 4.0, a domain controller/file server running NT as well. We are using IIS 4.0, I believe, to host 3 websites.

The clients use Windows 98/ME except for 1 laptop which uses windows xp professional.

Everyone in the world can go to

http://www.site.com

and the pages will be served correctly.

All the clients (our employees) are able to go to

http://www.site.com

and can access our sites.

However, 1 Windows Xp user cannot do this sometimes. He will get a 404 page not found error. Even though the site is up and running. And this is only sometimes. It's a 50/50 chance he will be able access the sites.

All of the computers have a 192.168.1.xxx ip address, and on the xp machine, I have the DNS address as 192.168.1.51 (our NT web server) plus 2 other DNS servers from AT&T.

Before I installed service pack 2, (and this maybe a coicidence) but I could just type in "site.com" and it would find the website. However typing "

http://www.site.com"

doesn't work (then sometimes it does).

I don't know where to start the troubleshooting process. I changed the order of DNS servers and it didn't do anything.

I don't understand why it works sometimes and sometimes it doesn't. No spyware was detected, no viruses!

 

[cupid11213]

for this issue try tp ping with that xpsp2 computer ( first try to ping url's and then a couple of ip addresses including your own. (it seems to be something on the computer your using (ex...tcp/ip , winsocks and so forth)

let me know the results you get from the ping and then we'll go from there.

click start,run,type "cmd"(no quotes)
then in command prompt type "ping

http://www.yahoo.com"

and ping ip address and see how many packets are recieved.

good luck.

if it were me i'd try removing winsocks and reinstalling tcp/ip.