Nope, not using anything like that. I'm just using run-of-the-mill Netscape (v3.04) from my work computer, and I don't find any host files as you describe on my hard drive. Unless our corporate server is using something like that, my understanding is that my browser always queries a DNS to get IP addresses. The funny thing is, I can get to the IP address (e.g., the Photocritique.net homepage, and a few of the links on that homepage) just fine. The problem arises when I'm already on the Photocritique homepage and I try to click on a link to one of the Photocritique galleries ~from~ that homepage. I may look at it in a little more detail over the weekend, on an off-site computer connected to somebody else's server.
Thanks again, Bill Peifer Rochester, NY > -----Original Message----- > From: Paris, Leonard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 2:22 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: What's up with Photocritique.net? > > Are you using a program like Fastnet that builds a HOST table of IP > addresses for all of your browser's URLs. This speeds things up because > your browser doen't have to querry a Domain Name Server to get the IP > address. Unfortunately, IP addresses have a tendency to be changed. If > that happens, you get that kind of an error message. It just means that > your HOST file needs updating. You can either update the HOST file or > just > delete it and the browser will ask the DNS for the current IP address for > the target URL. > > Search your hard drive for a host file. Remember, it probably won't have > a > file extension, it may just be named 'host'. > > Len - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
