<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Frank Dolinar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frank.dolinar@comcast.net">frank.dolinar@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<font face="Times New Roman">He provided an output from a diagnostic
run. If anyone identifies some sort of smoking gun in the diagnostic
data, or if you try the URL and are unable to get in and can provide
some illumination of this or possible other problems, I'd appreciate
hearing whatever you have to offer.<br>
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</font></div></blockquote></div><br>Well, yeah to what's gone before. Other tools are better. But there IS info to be had, and guesses to be made, from just this...<br><br>1. For the record, no, I don't have any problems with the URL or the site.<br>
<br>2. IE is set up to 'automatically detect proxy'. Turn that off if he's never using a proxy. Can do nothing but confuse things. Just uncheck everything on that 'LAN settings' screen in Internet Options.<br>
<br>3. First try, it returns Error 12007 // <table width="796" height="23"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td><br></td>
<td><font size="3" face="Times New Roman">Hostname <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/" target="_blank">www.microsoft.com</a>
could not be resolved (Error code 0x2afc). Could be either gateway or
DNS issue</font></td></tr></tbody></table>and then autorepairs and finds MS fine. Did he try to get out again? If you search on >> 0x2afc error << it's a maze, but many of the 'serious' problems go through a lot more steps with that MS tool than just a simple IP renewal. I'm guessing that there's a misconfiguration somewhere on his lease time.<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Peter Smith<br><a href="mailto:psmith.gllug@gmail.com">psmith.gllug@gmail.com</a><br>