Question : Cannot browse to intranet web site.  problems with hosts file?

Hi, I cannot browse to to an intranet web site from a new machine in our company, while all of the other ones can bring up the web site.

I copied the hosts file to C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc.  One interesting point is that although there is an entry for intranet.aCustomer.npi in the hosts file, I cannot ping it by name, although the numerical ip address works.  From other machines in the company, I can ping it by both name and numerical ip address.

I did try closing all browser windows and, when that didn't work, a reboot.  

One final symptom.  I tried bringing up the web site using http://[IP]/.../index.asp and that didn't work either!  So I don't think it's just a problem with the hosts file (but I could be wrong!)

Thanks so much for any help that anyone can provide!

Answer : Cannot browse to intranet web site.  problems with hosts file?

there should be an entry in the hosts file as follows:
ip_of_web_server <tab> name_of_web_server

this will cause the machine to associate the name of the webserver with the ip.

if that doesn't resolve the issue, it may be a dns problem