mcb Posted May 20, 2002 Share Posted May 20, 2002 i havent been able to get on Neowin via Internet Explorer in almost a week! (coincides with latest security patch?) im using Opera to post this. it's a DNS timeout error: 502 Bad Gateway The following error occurred: A DNS lookup error occurred. The request timed out during the lookup. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please contact the administrator. I've seen this before (especially with Neowin) but not for this long, and not in such a way that i'm the only one who cant get in. The problem is only in IE, since im here in Opera...help? *edit* gosh....its apparenlty working now (about a week later) i took some stuff off my computer like norton internet security and some tweaks, but that was a while ago... oh well, microsoft and the internet work in mysterious ways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted May 20, 2002 Share Posted May 20, 2002 try useing crazybrowser or netcaptor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yashiro Posted May 20, 2002 Share Posted May 20, 2002 Delete your internet explorer history. Delete your internet explorer temporary internet files. Close your browser. Open a cmd prompt and type 'ipconfig/flushdns' Reboot immediately. If you still have probs check your hosts file,dns server,proxy settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypercube Posted May 20, 2002 Share Posted May 20, 2002 Is this an IE error or is it an error page served through your proxy, because the "Please Contact the Admin" part doesn't seem to be a IE local error message. Otherwise, yashiro's solution would have worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb Posted May 21, 2002 Author Share Posted May 21, 2002 Originally posted by yashiro Delete your internet explorer history. Delete your internet explorer temporary internet files. Close your browser. Open a cmd prompt and type 'ipconfig/flushdns' Reboot immediately. If you still have probs check your hosts file,dns server,proxy settings. that didnt seem to work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb Posted May 21, 2002 Author Share Posted May 21, 2002 Originally posted by SyS_Reactor Is this an IE error or is it an error page served through your proxy, because the "Please Contact the Admin" part doesn't seem to be a IE local error message. Otherwise, yashiro's solution would have worked. the error is just in the browser, same as if you had a 404 error. (but yashiro's solution didnt seem to solve it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahodes1 Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 try ditching the Q321232 hotfix, that's the latest IE fix and see what happens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geronimo Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 /edit nevermind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb Posted May 21, 2002 Author Share Posted May 21, 2002 Originally posted by ahodes1 try ditching the Q321232 hotfix, that's the latest IE fix and see what happens... its not on the ad/remove list for some reason.. nor can i find anything by searaching for Q321232 on my comp, but i do know that that is the update name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb Posted May 21, 2002 Author Share Posted May 21, 2002 how can i completely remove all of IE and its patches, and start from scratch without reformatting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hurting101 Posted May 21, 2002 Share Posted May 21, 2002 Not sure if you can... but try this (mentioned on other thread, not tested tho): http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/https://www.neowin.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb Posted May 21, 2002 Author Share Posted May 21, 2002 hey, hey! that works! although it has ads and looks ugly.. why would this work and not the regular? its obviously something wrong on my computer, and IE in particular... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconcy Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Try the following: Pull up a command prompt window and type in ipconfig /flushdns This will flush the dns cache and might solve your problem. It certainly solved some wierd things which were happening with IE (....and Nutscrape too) falconcy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazydesert Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Originally posted by falconcy Try the following: Pull up a command prompt window and type in ipconfig /flushdns This will flush the dns cache and might solve your problem. It certainly solved some wierd things which were happening with IE (....and Nutscrape too) falconcy i'm sorry, i must be out of loop or something.. what is this 'nutscrape' you're talking about ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falconcy Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 Originally posted by lazydesert i'm sorry, i must be out of loop or something.. what is this 'nutscrape' you're talking about ? ....try thinking of another browser which some people use and it will become apparent;-) falconcy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazydesert Posted May 22, 2002 Share Posted May 22, 2002 why not just say netscape then ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb Posted May 22, 2002 Author Share Posted May 22, 2002 Originally posted by falconcy Try the following: Pull up a command prompt window and type in ipconfig /flushdns This will flush the dns cache and might solve your problem. It certainly solved some wierd things which were happening with IE (....and Nutscrape too) falconcy it says 'could not flush DNS Resolver Cache: function failed during execution damn.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahodes1 Posted May 23, 2002 Share Posted May 23, 2002 Originally posted by mcb it says 'could not flush DNS Resolver Cache: function failed during execution damn.... Your networking is screwed up if you get that :( Perhaps bad NIC drivers? If not then you are almost definately looking at a reinstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb Posted May 23, 2002 Author Share Posted May 23, 2002 reinstallin windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fr33k Posted May 23, 2002 Share Posted May 23, 2002 Originally posted by lazydesert why not just say netscape then ? yuk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb Posted May 23, 2002 Author Share Posted May 23, 2002 i can think of a more accurate work that rhymes with 'yuk' ive already reformatted twice in the past month Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcb Posted May 24, 2002 Author Share Posted May 24, 2002 Originally posted by mcb i havent been able to get on Neowin via Internet Explorer in almost a week! (coincides with latest security patch?) im using Opera to post this. it's a DNS timeout error: 502 Bad Gateway The following error occurred: A DNS lookup error occurred. The request timed out during the lookup. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please contact the administrator. I've seen this before (especially with Neowin) but not for this long, and not in such a way that i'm the only one who cant get in. The problem is only in IE, since im here in Opera...help? gosh....its apparenlty working now (about a week later) i took some stuff off my computer like norton internet security and some tweaks, but that was a while ago... oh well, microsoft and the internet work in mysterious ways Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrysalis Posted May 24, 2002 Share Posted May 24, 2002 I had the same error neowin.net was unaccessible for a week and now its starting to work again, all my friends had the same problem on various uk isps. Also I will point out I installed no IE or windows updates to coincide with it, I think it was a neowin problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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