Firewall issue?? Either an IP blocked, or program blocked. Check the laptop firewall log. Clear it, try to connect and see if an error message appears in the log. Are you pinging the IP name and numerical address, are both successful? With zonealarm (others similar), you may block, allow, or ask the question to allow for both internet and trusted zones, access and server. If I question whether a program should be which, generally I will use "?" and then it pops up and asks, and I can make a decision then, including to allow one time access. Tamas Rudnai wrote: > So as I understood when you do an nslookup on a particular URL then it > returns with the *correct* IP? But when doing that so with any > browser, then it goes somewhere else? What does ipconfig /all says? > (is the DNS server correct?) Do you have a proxy set up in your > browser? Do you have any plug-in / add-on / toolbar installed? Could > you download the HTML with wget or curl or even with google chrome? > > Tamas > > > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Richard Prosser wrote: > >> Just wondering if anyone can illuminate me. >> >> We have just bought my daughter a Sony Vaio laptop. Comes complete >> with windows7 and IE etc. etc. >> >> Now all went well at first but then I got the complaint that she >> couldn't access a particular website . No message, just >> a long load time and then timeout. >> >> So I try on my laptop and it works fine. I try pinging the site on my >> daughters machine & the IP address returns OK - so DNS is working OK! >> >> Tried using the raw IP addresses. No Go. >> >> I try my sons laptop and my desktop all OK, but my daughters is >> definitely not getting it. Maybe an activeX / security issue - >> apparently not after disabling most of the protection. >> >> Maybe an IE issue - so downloaded Firefox. Nope. Still no go. >> >> Eventually I tried changing the DNS servers anyway. Still No go. >> >> Then I added the OpenDNS servers to the DNS list and everthing came >> right - until the next day when it failed again. So this time I moved >> the OpenDNS servers to the top of the list and, again it worked - & >> apparently still is. >> >> Now Why did the correct IP address get resolved by the ping, but not >> the browser - some sort of redirect? And why did I have to add >> additional DNS servers to get it work at all? >> >> My system here uses a router/ADSL modem that is normally setup as the >> primary DNS server and which itself has my ISP's DNS servers for >> lookup. And I can't change this - the firmware has it locked in. So >> I've set up my machines to at least use one different DNS as well. But >> my son's laptop will just be using the standard setup - and that >> worked OK. >> >> Note: OpenDNS was the only server that worked. The new google servers >> also failed. >> >> Thanks, Any understanding would be appreciated in case I get a repeat. >> >> Richard Prosser >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> >> > > > > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist