Wanted to follow up to let you know what I discovered on this. I had been getting an error on almost every web page I tried to access saying the server couldn't be found. If I tried to connect a second or third time it would usually connect.
As it turned out it wasn't a problem with our ISP - I seemed to be the only one here that was having problems. I tried Schoun's suggestion of using a manual DNS number and this wouldn?t let me connect to anything at all for some strange reason. I then read Ward?s suggestion and, you know, sometimes it just gets back to simple, basic maintenance. I ran the disk utility but no luck, then I remembered that it had been awhile since I?d been into terminal and ran the commands below. That did the trick. I just did an install of Panther followed by the 10.3.3 upgrade on another machine and guess what? I had the same problem. I then realized that my machine had started exhibiting this strange behavior shortly after I had upgraded. I don?t know if this was just coincidence or if there is some file in the system that needs to be removed after the upgrade to keep IE functioning properly. I always run disk utility before installing any upgrades, but never thought to run these as well. Oh, and those magical commands? sudo sh /etc/daily sudo sh /etc/weekly sudo sh /etc/monthly Since my machine stays on all week, I?m pretty sure the daily one runs on it?s own, but I do shut it down on the weekends and I?m not sure if the weekly and monthly ones ever run. Anyway, maybe this will help someone else out down the road. It always seems to be the simple solution I overlook and figure my problem is going to be much more involved than it has to be. -- Thanks Rex, Schoun and Ward for all your input! Beth Fastline Publications Inc. DISCLAIMER: This communication is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, (i) please do not read or disclose to others, (ii) please notify the sender by reply mail, and (iii) please delete this communication from your system. Failure to follow this process may be unlawful. Thank you for your cooperation. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20040324/64efc1b0/attachment.html
