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Can't connect to Internet!

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by mikeytino

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I use a Winsock Proxy client to conenct to the internet through our corporate network. A Laptop I am working on has the WSP client enabled, IE is set to use a proxy server, I can browse the corporate network, all necesary permissions, protocols, andadapters are installed and working right, yet I cannot get onto the internet or ping addresses outside the network.

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by gua

Hi
First, try to access any website using it IP address. For example, try
http://64.4.53.7
(this is IP for www.hotmail.com)
If you can access hotmail server, that means you have to check out your DNS server. Your laptop DNS should point to your corporate DNS server, not an Internet DNS server.
On the 'ping' issue, your proxy server might close ICMP port used by ping program to outside network. Check out with your network admin.
Secondly, you might want to check out your winsock proxy client software (if you are using any). But as far as I'm concern IE can be set to use proxy server without having to do configure winsock client. You just set it up at the IE setting.

Hope this would help you.

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