Question : Cannot Find Server (only ONE website/IP and only in my network, rest of internet OK ;-)

This is an odd one.

I am working on a website for a client, and today for some reason I have started to get "Cannot Find Server, or DNS Error" when opening the page in Internet Explorer on XP Professional.

I opened the page succesfully yesterday.

FTP and Secure Shell access are also not working.

I can ping the IP address, and a traceroute finds the route succesfully.

I cant open the webpage using the IP address (212.227.109.225)

I have no other problems with any other web pages, ftp sites etc.  I have tried sites I have never visited before.  I have confirmed that I can see sites hosted with the same company.

I've asked my friends and contacts to try the site and they can all open the webpage without any problems.

The hosting company has run tests and there is no problem at their end.

My ISP is useless - they have little interest in solving the problem, even though their own engineers can't open the webpage.

I have three computers on this network, two XP Pro, and one W2K.  None of them can see the site.

I am sitting behind a Draytek DSL Router, with a secure but flat configuration, there's no restrictions on the router, and it is configured to be issued with DNS server addresses dynamically.  DNS requests are passing through the router correctly, and the IP address I am receiving is correct.

WTF is happening?  This has me baffled.


Just in case you ask, and even though this condition exists on three seperate workstations - my network settings on *this workstation* have not changed as far as I know since I was looking at the site yesterday.  The only thing I dont know recognise is the second DNS server, but this is only on *this* computer

Windows IP Configuration

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . :
        Primary Dns Suffix  . . . . . . . :
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Unknown
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940)
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . :
        Dhcp Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
        Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
        DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.1
                                                   194.98.0.1                      <----  *** I dont recognise this ***
        Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 25 April 2005 20:08:42
        Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 28 April 2005 20:08:42


My hosts file is empty and my cache has been cleared.

Answer : Cannot Find Server (only ONE website/IP and only in my network, rest of internet OK ;-)

The question has been PAQ'd and the 500 points have been refunded.
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