i get a page can not be displayed message. can someone help?

"jay" <jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i get a page can not be displayed message. can someone help?

Does this work?

http://204.209.44.89

Yes!!!
why is that?

"Charlie Tame" wrote:

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> "jay" <jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C306EE4A-AA2C-4893-B0F8-3C54C21DE2B6@microsoft.com...
> >i get a page can not be displayed message. can someone help?
>
> Does this work?
>
> http://204.209.44.89
>
>
>

"jay" <jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Yes!!!
> why is that?
>
> "Charlie Tame" wrote:
>
>>
>> "jay" <jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C306EE4A-AA2C-4893-B0F8-3C54C21DE2B6@microsoft.com...
>>> i get a page can not be displayed message. can someone help?
>>
>> Does this work?
>>
>> http://204.209.44.89

Check for a file named HOSTS with no extension (not Hosts.sam). It may be a
hidden file. Open it with Notepad and remove any line referencing the site.
Or, rename HOSTS to OLDHOSTS

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See also Frank's reply.

When you type "Something.com" the alphabetic or "Friendly" name is quite
meaningless to your browser for actually finding the computer you want...
they all have a numeric address which could in theory be anything from
0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255 (In practice some numbers like those two are
reserved for special uses but that's the range we are talking about.

(Actually you could represent this number in decimal but it would be very
long, something over 4 billion To make it easier to write they use 4 8 bit
groups)

So when you type "Something.com" your browser sends that to what you might
call a "Phone book" computer called a DNS server. DNS stands for Domain Name
System
http://www.dns.net/dnsrd/

Because the number associated with any domain name might change this is a
very helpful system, since you don't have to keep a phone book yourself, but
your computer can keep a phone book of sorts and that is the hosts file
Frank referred to. It may be that the number recently changed so your local
book has it wrong now, or it may be that your computer cannot find a Domain
Name Server. If you know the numbers you don't rely on the hosts file or a
DNS server to translate anything so you eliminate one potential problem.

There is a kind of master phone book on the "Root" servers and tiers of
servers below those, and each time one of the lower tiers has to look up a
domain name it asks the tier above. When the reply comes back it has a "Time
to live" and that value will last for that amount of time before the
requesting server needs to ask again. For example if the Time to live is 24
hours and Microsoft changed their IP address due to hardware changes, the IP
passed down the chain would at most be 24 hours out of date and the next day
we'd all find them again. Of course this is a very simplified version but
the inability to access websites is quite common so it's useful to know the
basic idea since you can now pin down the fault to DNS (One way or another)
and not a simple connection problem.

Hope this helps a bit.

Charlie

"jay" <jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Yes!!!
> why is that?
>
> "Charlie Tame" wrote:
>
>>
>> "jay" <jay@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C306EE4A-AA2C-4893-B0F8-3C54C21DE2B6@microsoft.com...
>> >i get a page can not be displayed message. can someone help?
>>
>> Does this work?
>>
>> http://204.209.44.89
>>
>>
>>