Cannot browse Internet Sites with IE7+ and Vista b2, Can browse LAN sites

I have a good LAN connection, DHCP allocated IP address, DNS appears to
work, and I can browse web content on the LAN.

I cannot, however, browse web content on the far side of my home router.
Anything outside the LAN returns a message in IE that there is a server
problem. I can see the DNS resolution in the task bar of IE 7, but no web
content.

Also, activation isn't working. Perhaps if I solve one issue, I can solve
the other.

Try going here on the affected computer: http://69.93.5.112
Does that page load up? If so... it's definately a DNS issue ;o)

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"KG" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I have a good LAN connection, DHCP allocated IP address, DNS appears to
>work, and I can browse web content on the LAN.
>
> I cannot, however, browse web content on the far side of my home router.
> Anything outside the LAN returns a message in IE that there is a server
> problem. I can see the DNS resolution in the task bar of IE 7, but no web
> content.
>
> Also, activation isn't working. Perhaps if I solve one issue, I can solve
> the other.
>

Thanks for the reply. DNS is working, but still cannot browse outside of the
LAN. Hypothesis is weird IE security or router issue !? Machine is dual boot
with XP and Vista. XP works fine so physical network layer is functioning.
Tried manually setting DNS servers but still no good.

Sigh.

"Zack Whittaker" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Try going here on the affected computer: http://69.93.5.112
> Does that page load up? If so... it's definately a DNS issue ;o)
>
> --
> Zack Whittaker
> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
> not
> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
> that up!
>
> --: Original message follows :--
> "KG" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I have a good LAN connection, DHCP allocated IP address, DNS appears to
>>work, and I can browse web content on the LAN.
>>
>> I cannot, however, browse web content on the far side of my home router.
>> Anything outside the LAN returns a message in IE that there is a server
>> problem. I can see the DNS resolution in the task bar of IE 7, but no web
>> content.
>>
>> Also, activation isn't working. Perhaps if I solve one issue, I can solve
>> the other.
>>
>
>

I had an issue really similar to yours on my Windows 2003 server. My server
hosts webpages using a service by dynu.com because I'm on a dynamic ip
address from comcast. Anyway, I could view my webpages that were being
hosted from a remote site, I could Remote Desktop into my server, but from
my server I could not view anything related to http. I posted that problem
in the windows.server.general newsgroup and 2 smart fellas recommended I
remove IE Security Enhancements from Add/Remove Windows Components. I don't
know if Vista has IE Security Enhancements, but check it out.

Tony


"kg" <> wrote in message
news:Od%...
> Thanks for the reply. DNS is working, but still cannot browse outside of
> the LAN. Hypothesis is weird IE security or router issue !? Machine is
> dual boot with XP and Vista. XP works fine so physical network layer is
> functioning. Tried manually setting DNS servers but still no good.
>
> Sigh.
>
> "Zack Whittaker" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Try going here on the affected computer: http://69.93.5.112
>> Does that page load up? If so... it's definately a DNS issue ;o)
>>
>> --
>> Zack Whittaker
>> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
>> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
>> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
>> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
>> not
>> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
>> that up!
>>
>> --: Original message follows :--
>> "KG" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>>I have a good LAN connection, DHCP allocated IP address, DNS appears to
>>>work, and I can browse web content on the LAN.
>>>
>>> I cannot, however, browse web content on the far side of my home router.
>>> Anything outside the LAN returns a message in IE that there is a server
>>> problem. I can see the DNS resolution in the task bar of IE 7, but no
>>> web content.
>>>
>>> Also, activation isn't working. Perhaps if I solve one issue, I can
>>> solve the other.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Which possibly means the issue is related to Protected Mode, try disabling
that if its enabled I would suggest. Tools > Options > Security > uncheck
"Enable Protected Mode". > OK.
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"Tony K" <king-> wrote in message
news:%...
>I had an issue really similar to yours on my Windows 2003 server. My
>server hosts webpages using a service by dynu.com because I'm on a dynamic
>ip address from comcast. Anyway, I could view my webpages that were being
>hosted from a remote site, I could Remote Desktop into my server, but from
>my server I could not view anything related to http. I posted that problem
>in the windows.server.general newsgroup and 2 smart fellas recommended I
>remove IE Security Enhancements from Add/Remove Windows Components. I
>don't know if Vista has IE Security Enhancements, but check it out.
>
> Tony
>
>
> "kg" <> wrote in message
> news:Od%...
>> Thanks for the reply. DNS is working, but still cannot browse outside of
>> the LAN. Hypothesis is weird IE security or router issue !? Machine is
>> dual boot with XP and Vista. XP works fine so physical network layer is
>> functioning. Tried manually setting DNS servers but still no good.
>>
>> Sigh.
>>
>> "Zack Whittaker" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> Try going here on the affected computer: http://69.93.5.112
>>> Does that page load up? If so... it's definately a DNS issue ;o)
>>>
>>> --
>>> Zack Whittaker
>>> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
>>> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
>>> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
>>> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
>>> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and
>>> not
>>> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we
>>> cleared
>>> that up!
>>>
>>> --: Original message follows :--
>>> "KG" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>>I have a good LAN connection, DHCP allocated IP address, DNS appears to
>>>>work, and I can browse web content on the LAN.
>>>>
>>>> I cannot, however, browse web content on the far side of my home
>>>> router. Anything outside the LAN returns a message in IE that there is
>>>> a server problem. I can see the DNS resolution in the task bar of IE 7,
>>>> but no web content.
>>>>
>>>> Also, activation isn't working. Perhaps if I solve one issue, I can
>>>> solve the other.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

I fixed the problem! Problem was SPI on my home router dropping packets.

I have a ZyXel router, new, pre-N, MIMO.
I checked the router logs and they were filled with dropped packets. Reason
= SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) bad packet sequence number.
I disabled SPI, and problem solved!
All XP machines in side the router never had this problem



"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Which possibly means the issue is related to Protected Mode, try disabling
> that if its enabled I would suggest. Tools > Options > Security > uncheck
> "Enable Protected Mode". > OK.
> --
> --
> Andre
> Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com
> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>
> "Tony K" <king-> wrote in message
> news:%...
>>I had an issue really similar to yours on my Windows 2003 server. My
>>server hosts webpages using a service by dynu.com because I'm on a dynamic
>>ip address from comcast. Anyway, I could view my webpages that were being
>>hosted from a remote site, I could Remote Desktop into my server, but from
>>my server I could not view anything related to http. I posted that
>>problem in the windows.server.general newsgroup and 2 smart fellas
>>recommended I remove IE Security Enhancements from Add/Remove Windows
>>Components. I don't know if Vista has IE Security Enhancements, but check
>>it out.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
>> "kg" <> wrote in message
>> news:Od%...
>>> Thanks for the reply. DNS is working, but still cannot browse outside of
>>> the LAN. Hypothesis is weird IE security or router issue !? Machine is
>>> dual boot with XP and Vista. XP works fine so physical network layer is
>>> functioning. Tried manually setting DNS servers but still no good.
>>>
>>> Sigh.
>>>
>>> "Zack Whittaker" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>> Try going here on the affected computer: http://69.93.5.112
>>>> Does that page load up? If so... it's definately a DNS issue ;o)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Zack Whittaker
>>>> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
>>>> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
>>>> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
>>>> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
>>>> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so,
>>>> and not
>>>> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we
>>>> cleared
>>>> that up!
>>>>
>>>> --: Original message follows :--
>>>> "KG" <> wrote in message
>>>> news:...
>>>>>I have a good LAN connection, DHCP allocated IP address, DNS appears to
>>>>>work, and I can browse web content on the LAN.
>>>>>
>>>>> I cannot, however, browse web content on the far side of my home
>>>>> router. Anything outside the LAN returns a message in IE that there is
>>>>> a server problem. I can see the DNS resolution in the task bar of IE
>>>>> 7, but no web content.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, activation isn't working. Perhaps if I solve one issue, I can
>>>>> solve the other.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

DARN - I was gonna recommend that. Glad you fixed it.
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"kg" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I fixed the problem! Problem was SPI on my home router dropping packets.
>
> I have a ZyXel router, new, pre-N, MIMO.
> I checked the router logs and they were filled with dropped packets.
> Reason = SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) bad packet sequence number.
> I disabled SPI, and problem solved!
> All XP machines in side the router never had this problem
>
>
>
> "Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Which possibly means the issue is related to Protected Mode, try
>> disabling that if its enabled I would suggest. Tools > Options > Security
>> > uncheck "Enable Protected Mode". > OK.
>> --
>> --
>> Andre
>> Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com
>> Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com
>> Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre
>> http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
>>
>> "Tony K" <king-> wrote in message
>> news:%...
>>>I had an issue really similar to yours on my Windows 2003 server. My
>>>server hosts webpages using a service by dynu.com because I'm on a
>>>dynamic ip address from comcast. Anyway, I could view my webpages that
>>>were being hosted from a remote site, I could Remote Desktop into my
>>>server, but from my server I could not view anything related to http. I
>>>posted that problem in the windows.server.general newsgroup and 2 smart
>>>fellas recommended I remove IE Security Enhancements from Add/Remove
>>>Windows Components. I don't know if Vista has IE Security Enhancements,
>>>but check it out.
>>>
>>> Tony
>>>
>>>
>>> "kg" <> wrote in message
>>> news:Od%...
>>>> Thanks for the reply. DNS is working, but still cannot browse outside
>>>> of the LAN. Hypothesis is weird IE security or router issue !? Machine
>>>> is dual boot with XP and Vista. XP works fine so physical network layer
>>>> is functioning. Tried manually setting DNS servers but still no good.
>>>>
>>>> Sigh.
>>>>
>>>> "Zack Whittaker" <> wrote in message
>>>> news:...
>>>>> Try going here on the affected computer: http://69.93.5.112
>>>>> Does that page load up? If so... it's definately a DNS issue ;o)
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Zack Whittaker
>>>>> » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
>>>>> » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org
>>>>> » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk
>>>>> » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
>>>>> rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so,
>>>>> and not
>>>>> of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we
>>>>> cleared
>>>>> that up!
>>>>>
>>>>> --: Original message follows :--
>>>>> "KG" <> wrote in message
>>>>> news:...
>>>>>>I have a good LAN connection, DHCP allocated IP address, DNS appears
>>>>>>to work, and I can browse web content on the LAN.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I cannot, however, browse web content on the far side of my home
>>>>>> router. Anything outside the LAN returns a message in IE that there
>>>>>> is a server problem. I can see the DNS resolution in the task bar of
>>>>>> IE 7, but no web content.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Also, activation isn't working. Perhaps if I solve one issue, I can
>>>>>> solve the other.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

KG wrote:
> I have a good LAN connection, DHCP allocated IP address, DNS appears to
> work, and I can browse web content on the LAN.
>
> I cannot, however, browse web content on the far side of my home router.
> Anything outside the LAN returns a message in IE that there is a server
> problem. I can see the DNS resolution in the task bar of IE 7, but no web
> content.
>
> Also, activation isn't working. Perhaps if I solve one issue, I can solve
> the other.
>
>

Does firefox or another browser work? Can you ping an external IP out
on the web? Is there any other computers on your lan having a similar
problem?

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