RE: IIS problems

You're using SP6a? I've been told by various people to be very distrustful
of any service pack beyond SP5. I wonder if I should risk messing things up
even more with SP6a? For that matter, is it even applicable to NT4?

Keith Purtell, Web Designer
VantageMed Corporation


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kathy Evans [mailto:kje(at)vendetta.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 5:39 PM
> To: Keith Purtell; Hwg-Servers (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: IIS problems
>
>
> I've never actually used http://localhost on the IIS server as I have
> multiple web sites and multiple IP addresses. I just tested
> it and both
> localhost and 127.0.0.1 resolve to the default page on the
> default site
> using IE4.01 sp2. I have 127.0.0.1 mapped to localhost in
> both hosts and
> lmhosts. I used to have a problem ages ago until with NETBIOS name
> resolution for web sites (as opposed to DNS) before I ran
> various hotfixes.
> But since I've been on sp6a, I've had no problems at all.
>
> Also make sure that the default web site still says "All
> Unassigned" or you
> can ONLY connect on the IP address it has in there (127.0.0.1
> counts as a
> different address). Lots of things don't work if you change that.
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   Kathy
>   DNRC  Minister for Useful but Irritating Information and Trivia
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Keith Purtell <kpurtell(at)vantagemed.net>
> To: 'Bryan Bateman' <batemanb(at)home.com>; 'Kathy Evans'
> <kje(at)vendetta.co.uk>;
> 'Hwg-Servers (E-mail)' <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 9:38 PM
> Subject: RE: IIS problems
>
>
> > I'll implement your suggestions during the turkey-day holiday, then
> respond
> > with results. I did run some interim tests with odd results...
> >
> > Browser           http://localhost  http://127.0.0.1
> > IE4               will not resolve  will not resolve
> > Communicator 4.7    will resolve    will not resolve
> >
> > Communicator will pull up the default Web page and display
> it only if I
> use
> > the loopback domain name. One more oddity: IE will actually
> display a page
> > if I double-click an HTML file, but images will not display
> unless they
> are
> > coded in the page using IFRAME instead of IMG.
> >
> > Keith Purtell, Web Designer
> > VantageMed Corporation
> >

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