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Posted by Geoff Blake on 06/16/46 11:18
Sorry - please ignore previous request
I found my problem - I had "www" in front of my URL in IE
Why does that affect it.
"Geoff Blake" <gdblake-remove-@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Hi
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> Sorry if this is OT but I thought some of you would have experienced this
> and be able to help.
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> I am new to all this and am trying to set up a Linux machine (Fedora 3) as
a
> LAMP server on a LAN with a Windows XP Prof machine. The boxes are
connected
> via a cheap switch.
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> I have added the site address to the Hosts file on both machines, flushed
> all chains from iptables on the Linux machine and there appears to be no
> firewall on XP.
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> From the XP machine I can telnet mysite.com 80 and get my html test page -
> however when I use Internet Explorer it cannot find my page and responds
> "The web page you requested is not available offline". The same thing
> happens when I use another box with windows 2000. Pressing the connect
> button just sends it off looking for - what I assume - is a DNS site
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> From the Linux machine I have used Tcpdump to monitor the traffic (at
least
> this is making me learn about Fedora) on the XP machine. I get plenty of
> traffic when I use telnet but nothing when I use Internet explorer - I
would
> have expected something not that I understand what the messages mean
>
> I've been looking at this for days now so any suggestions (other than
doing
> away with windows) would be appreciated.
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