Jonathon Coombes wrote:
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Hi Diane,
I do not know why you would be einstein.com from my site, as
we have nothing to do with them. If you are getting that site
redirected from other domains like you mention, I would look
at doing a thorough scan of your machine for malware etc.
Thanx for your response, Jonathon. Thanx to Scott Carr,
also, for his feedback on another list. I think we got to
the bottom of this.
We had einstein.com in our DNS path in our network settings,
as a name for our internal network... This was how we had
originally set it up, because we were under the impression
something needed to be specified there, but when we used
mackmoon.com, we got major conflicts, so we changed it to
what we thought was an internal setting: einstein.com.
We have run with it set this was for a few years. It was
almost a forgotten setting. We have since then learned that
the DNS setting is not needed in our network specs, so I've
removed it from all of our aliases, and the DNS field.
Perhaps our conversion to Firefox is what caused this "new"
error to show, because it seems to be a recent observation,
compared to how our settings were specified.
This probably sounds stupid to the more linux savvy, but I
thought I'd share our findings anyway, in case it is helpful
to someone else at some point. Our network is peer-to-peer,
so no DNS specification is needed. We are learning as we go,
so it is not surprising to run into a glitch such as this.
Once removed, the web sites come up normally. We think what
was happening is that for sites which come up slowly (we are
dialup), they somehow came up slow enough the the system, or
firefox, to fall back on this DNS setting in our network
settings, which produced a display of the einstein.com site,
yet showed a URL of the site(s) we intended to visit.
Now that the DNS spec is removed, we get a "normal" message
from the browser that the freeyourfiles.com site is not
available, and the kb site comes up normally.
Sorry to have been a pest to others with what turned out to
be our problem... At least now, we have a solution. Thanx
again for the feedback from everyone that provided it. It
made it easier to see it was our problem, after learning
others were not seeing it.
Thanx again,
Diane Mackay
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