"ddale900" <ddale900@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:01D07103-4FA4-4233-B81C-6A906B2C9313@xxxxxx
Quote:
> I cannot connect to one website via HTTP or HTTPS - www.discover.com.
> After
> installing SP1, I can no longer connect to this one website. I have Zone
> Alarm along with Vista's built in firewall installed, and there is a
> firewall
> build in to the 2 wire DSL router I have. Antivirus is Symantec antivirus
> 10.2.0.276. Windows defender is also installed. I've diabled all firewalls
> and antivirus and setup a DMZ on the router and still cannot connect. When
> I
> try to connect in IE, it gives the error page:
> res://ieframe.dll/dnserror.htm#http://www.discover.com/ which seems to
> indicate either a DNS or a firewall error. Running Vista's diagnostic
> tests
> says that port 80 or 443 is being blocked, but with all firewalls off, I
> can't imagine by what. I've installed virtual pc and installed xp with sp2
> on
> the virtual pc and that is able to connect through vista to that website.
> Via
> a XP SP2 laptop on the local LAN i'm also able to connect. I've tried to
> uninstall and reinstall the NIC. The machine has a PCI wireless card and
> using that it is also not able to connect. I've tired to use my cellular
> provider for dial-up access and that also did not work. I've tired safe
> mode
> with networking and still no luck. Of course all other sites are normal.
> I've
> tried resetting IE settings, adding the site to the trusted sites, running
> with no add-ons, all with no luck. I've messed with the security settings
> as
> suggested in some threads and no luck. I've also tried Opera, Firefox, and
> Safari and none of them can connect either. There is no proxy setup
> either.
> I've reset the IP and Winsock ( ipconfig /flushdns, /renew, netsh int ip
> reset, netsh winsock reset, etc) and nothing helps. When I try to ping the
> site, it works fine:
>
> Pinging www.discover.com [199.38.149.1] with 32 bytes of data:
> Reply from 199.38.149.1: bytes=32 time=29ms TTL=116
> Reply from 199.38.149.1: bytes=32 time=28ms TTL=116
> Reply from 199.38.149.1: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=116
> Reply from 199.38.149.1: bytes=32 time=27ms TTL=116
>
> Ping statistics for 199.38.149.1:
> Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
> Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
> Minimum = 27ms, Maximum = 29ms, Average = 27ms
>
> Running a TRACERT shows:
>
> Tracing route to www.discover.com [199.38.149.1]
> over a maximum of 30 hops:
>
> 1 4 ms 3 ms 3 ms homeportal.gateway.2wire.net [172.16.0.1]
> 2 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms adsl-76-226-79-254.dsl.sfldmi.sbcglobal.net
> [76.
> 226.79.254]
> 3 16 ms 17 ms 16 ms 76.205.15.66
> 4 17 ms 16 ms 17 ms bb2-g10-0.sfldmi.sbcglobal.net
> [151.164.43.63]
> 5 24 ms 22 ms 23 ms 151.164.95.166
> 6 23 ms 24 ms 24 ms gar8.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.79.85]
> 7 26 ms 24 ms 25 ms tbr2.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.99.66]
> 8 24 ms 24 ms 25 ms gar4.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.6.14]
> 9 25 ms 24 ms 27 ms 12.116.239.22
> 10 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms 199.38.154.242
> 11 27 ms 32 ms 26 ms 10.6.2.1
> 12 26 ms 28 ms 26 ms 10.6.10.4
> 13 26 ms 27 ms 27 ms 199.38.149.1
>
> Trace complete.
>
> IPCONFIG /ALL shows:
>
> Windows IP Configuration
>
> Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : 615WD41
> Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . :
> Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast
> IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
> DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : gateway.2wire.net
>
> Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection 2:
>
> Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : gateway.2wire.net
> Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network
> Connection
> Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-0C-F1-A6-7D-B1
> DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
> Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
> IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.1.35(Preferred)
> Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.0.0
> Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Friday, April 25, 2008 1:52:17 AM
> Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Friday, April 25, 2008 3:52:17 AM
> Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.0.1
> DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.0.1
> DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 172.16.0.1
> NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled
>
> I've run spyware / antivirus scans along with hijackthis and nothing has
> turned up. Short of uninstalling SP1, I have done everything that I can
> think
> of. Since this is the only website I cannot connect to, there must be
> something burried in Vista that is blocking it, but I do not know what
> that
> could be. I don't know if I stated it earler, but I have not problem
> connecting to other websites on port 80 or 443, just discover.com. Trying
> to
> connect from search engine results also does not work, for what it's
> worth. I
> also have attempted to change the DNS servers to OpenDNS servers, but that
> did not help. I have Cisco VPN on the machine and am able to connect to my
> work, but even then I cannot navigate to discover.com. I was able to go to
> discover.com prior to SP1 and it was working normally.
>
> I'm not exactly new to computers, but this one has me stumped. Any ideas?
I see you solved your problem. I was playing around with the setting and it
looks to me that the culprit is the ECN setting. I enable that and can't
connect to discover.com but if I disable it then it comes right up. The
other settings didn't seem to have any affect.
NetBiznessMan