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From: Foundry
Originally Posted by joebenz
what kind of latency do you get when you try to ping those sites?
weird...when i bring up a command prompt and then enter ping www.aol.com
the next line reads
"Pinging www.aol.com.websys.akadns.net [64.12.131.2]"
each packet fails as well
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Originally Posted by IluvJae
weird...when i bring up a command prompt and then enter ping www.aol.com
the next line reads
"Pinging www.aol.com.websys.akadns.net [64.12.131.2]"
each packet fails as well
the next line reads
"Pinging www.aol.com.websys.akadns.net [64.12.131.2]"
each packet fails as well
or if you ping -> google.com
Are the results the same?
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From: Foundry
Originally Posted by firebane
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail...al/965718306/1
and do a seach on your computer for a file called "lmhosts" without the quotes.
and do a seach on your computer for a file called "lmhosts" without the quotes.
I did find that file...should i be deleting that? the path is in my system32 folder
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From: NJ
Originally Posted by IluvJae
weird...when i bring up a command prompt and then enter ping www.aol.com
the next line reads
"Pinging www.aol.com.websys.akadns.net [64.12.131.2]"
each packet fails as well
the next line reads
"Pinging www.aol.com.websys.akadns.net [64.12.131.2]"
each packet fails as well
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C:\Documents and Settings\dwerb>ping aol.com
Pinging aol.com [64.12.50.151] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
...
There firewalls prevent ICMP traffic in
There is a difference in ICMP and HTTP traffic
That lmhosts file is it lmhosts or lmhosts.sam ?
Pinging aol.com [64.12.50.151] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
...
There firewalls prevent ICMP traffic in
There is a difference in ICMP and HTTP traffic That lmhosts file is it lmhosts or lmhosts.sam ?
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From: Foundry
Originally Posted by firebane
C:\Documents and Settings\dwerb>ping aol.com
Pinging aol.com [64.12.50.151] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
...
There firewalls prevent ICMP traffic in There is a difference in ICMP and HTTP traffic
That lmhosts file is it lmhosts or lmhosts.sam ?
Pinging aol.com [64.12.50.151] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
...
There firewalls prevent ICMP traffic in
There is a difference in ICMP and HTTP traffic That lmhosts file is it lmhosts or lmhosts.sam ?
When i look at the properties it's lmhosts.sam