unable to reach a website

[sisterchicago]

hi,

i am unable to reach a website! i can reach any other website except for www.cheapstingybargains.com i have tried reaching it through ie and firefox with no luck. in ie it says that the page can't be reach and in firefox it says the server can't be reached. apparently this is only happening on my computer and it is only a recent thing because i used to be able to view this site. please help if you can!

thanks!

[johnwill]

Hold the Windows key and press R, then type CMD to open a command prompt:

In the command prompt window that opens, type type the following command:

TRACERT cheapstingybargains.com

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter to copy the contents to the clipboard.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.

[sisterchicago]

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\hours>TRACERT cheapstingybargains.com
Unable to resolve target system name cheapstingybargains.com.

C:\Users\hours>


thanks for your quick reply!

[johnwill]

Start, Run, NOTEPAD c:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS.

Select all and copy and paste to a message here.

[sisterchicago]

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
# 102.54.94.97 rhino.acme.com # source server
# 38.25.63.10 x.acme.com # x client host


::1 localhost

[sisterchicago]

am i doing your instructions correctly?

[johnwill]

You did that correctly. Is this a wired connection? If so, boot in Safe Mode with Networking and see if you can access it that way. Are there any other computers on the same ISP connection? Can they connect to this site?

[allaboutpak]

my lan card is working and my lan recieves packets but when i open internet explorer it cannot open any website

[chrishunt]

what do you get is you do

nslookup www.cheapstingybargains.com

I get

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\chris>nslookup cheapstingybargains.com
Server: home.gateway
Address: 192.168.1.254

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: cheapstingybargains.com
Address: 69.16.227.125


C:\Users\chris>nslookup www.cheapstingybargains.com
Server: home.gateway
Address: 192.168.1.254

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.cheapstingybargains.com
Address: 69.16.227.125


C:\Users\chris>

[chrishunt]

also provide the output of

ipconfig /all

what dns server ip address do you get. Then do an nslookup of the ip address