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by kashmeir63

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Hi,
I have a windows 2000 Prof.computer, with what appears to be an browsing internet problem.I'm able to browse the internet w/no problems but there are certain websites I'm unable to browse ex: msnbc.com is one site I'm unable to bring up and there are some others. I do go through a proxy with a very fast response... I currently have I.E. 6.0. . I tried to reinstall ie6.0 with the same results.I tried changing the security settings... Any help would be appreciated.

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by lrund

I ran into a problem that was about the same a few months ago. In time, I was not able to access certain web sites. Would receive a screen that the site is unavailable or no port 80 on the site. What I finally found was that some software installadded a hosts file to the system with hardcoded url and IP address combinations. At the time of the install the IP addresses where correct, but in time the addresses changed and left me with none connectivity.
It is easy to check if this is the problem. Open up a search for the file called HOSTS which will probably be in the system directory. (The file does not contain a dot or three byte extension name.) Open the file with notpad and check the entries. You should only have one entry of 127.0.0.1 for localhost. This will force your computer to do a lookup on the dns for the correct IP address to the site.

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