To Keith, You could try the following diagnostic tests to try and identify why you can't get to Jim's website, an then fix the problem:
1. Temporarily turn off your firewall and anti-virus software and see whether you can navigate to the site. If you can, check out whether Jim's site is on a black list of 'bad sites'. Turn your firewall and anti-virus software back on again straight afterwards without going to any other page. 2. Check the entry in your hosts file to see whether the IP address assigned to Jim's site is pointing at your local host. To do this, you need to find your hosts file. It's location depends on your operating system, but on XP systems it's usually located here: c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ The file is called "hosts" without an extension. Open it using notepad. If it's very large, it might take a long time to open. When it does open, use the find function in Notepad to search for: www.kitchensinc.net If that URL is listed in your hosts file, there will be a four part number before it which is the IP address. See what that number is. If it's 127.0.0.1 (or something similar) then that's your problem. To correct it, you need to delete the whole line from the file. If it's another number, and you're not sure what it means, then just delete the line anyway, no harm will be done. Save the hosts file and close notepad. Reboot your computer (to flush the hosts cache) and try again to navigate to Jim's site. If this still doesn't work, you can try a further step as follows: Navigate to your desktop and find My Computer. Bring up the context menu with the Applications Key and select Manage. In the tree view, select Services and Applications, and right arrow, and then select Services. Tab to the list view on the right, and cursor down until you have selected the service called: DNS Client Service With this service highlighted, bring up the context menu with the applications key, choose Properties, and tab to Start Up Type, and select Disabled. Tab to OK and press enter. Reboot your computer, and then see if you can get to Jim's website now. Either way, you may or may not notice a difference in performance by disabling your DNS Client Service; if you do, you may need to put it back to either Manual or Automatic. These steps are for XP but I understand similar principles apply on other versions of Windows so you should be able to use this to work it out. 3. If the above hasn't helped, you could try other things such as re-setting your router but that's not something I could advise on. Hope this helps. Phil -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Kitchen Sent: 11 September 2012 10:39 To: Keith Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Problems with Jim Kitchen's website Hi Keith, Yeah, my web site is at http://www.kitchensinc.net That really is weird that your computer will not let you go there. I really do not think that it is my site. You know since you can go there with your wife's computer and others are not having a problem with my site. I just don't know. BFN Jim Why did the bird cross the kitchen? Too eat, too eat! [email protected] http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
