snurbleurk

Unfortunately disabling IPv6 seems to have had no effect. Worse, I am now discovering other sites which I used to be able to access freely are also now inaccessible. This is getting more and more frustrating.

OK folks. No progress as yet. In answer to the query both machines are running IE7. I have now downloaded Fiddler but I have no idea what to do with it - I am experimenting and have watched the tutorial video. This is what came up when I tried to access www.my.axa.co.uk [Fiddler] 504 - HTTPS Connection failure: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 163.156.193.218:443 Timestamp: 11:52:32:2370 (BTW I created another user on the Vista machine and that also could not get into www.my.axa.co.uk) Now then!! I have by chance found another site that will respond under AOL but will not respond under IE on the same (Vista) machine - I will have a look on old XP machine later. As it happens on my own website there is an embedded access to www.amptracker.com in AOL all is fine in IE Fiddler says: HTTP/1.1 502 Fiddler - Connection Failed Content-Type: text/html Connection: close Timestamp: 12:07:47:7380 [Fiddler] Connection to www.amptracker.com failed.<BR>Exception Text: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond 67.207.135.76:80 In spite of the site being fully present in AOL. my web site address is www.snurzurne.com (and it badly needs bringing up to date - but thats not the issue here) ?????

Bad Boy: neither of your suggestions has resolved the issue. I have yet to try the IPv6 thing. Mr Snrub: ping www.my.axa.co.uk results: on Vista machine (which can't access the site): Ping request could not find host www.my.axa.co.uk. Please check the name and try again on XP machine (on which I can access the site through AOL 9.0): exactly the same!!!! even though on the XP machine I had the site open fine! Regarding the question about users on the Vista machine - there is only one user - myself. curiouser and curiouser.... and no further forward sadly I don't understand what 'check out HOSTS and DNS settings' means... thanks to both for comments so far

Thanks Bad Boy; I had already done all that but I repeated it just in case. No joy situation is as was. Cluberti - how do I disable IPv6 - I will try that to see what effect it has but I would far rather have the problem 'solved' - this PC was happily accessing this particular site for 9 months until just recently. Please advise how to disable IPv6. Thanks

In the last week or so I have suddenly become unable to access a specific site through my main PC although it is accessible using my old PC and my partners laptop. I have searched a variety of fora and tried all of the suggestions without success. Checked MTU; downloaded latest router firmware; uninstalled and reinstalled AOL; reset IE to factory settings; cleared cache; flushed DNS etc etc etc.... All to no avail. This has become a total frustration - I am not so concerned about the individual site (annoying though it is to have to fire up separate machine just to access the site) - my greater concern is what happens if and when other sites are affected. The search results I have found illustrate that this is an alarmingly frequent and very frustrating issue for which a proper solution needs to be identified. The only thing that did allow me to get through to the site was via the-cloak.com BUT I could not then interact with the site as needed. the site is: my.axa.co.uk Main PC is: Vista Home Premium; Intel Duo 6420; neither AOL 9.0 VR nor IE browser can access site (except thru cloaking as above) Error page says: IE can not display the web page - on viewing source the window is labelled: dnserror 2nd PC is: XP SP2; Pentium 4; AOL 9.0 and IE can access site. Laptop : XP SP2; AOL 9.0 and IE can access site All are routed through ZOOM X6 router/DSL gateway via wireless; AOL is ISP. Only big obvious difference between machines is Vista. HELP!!! (Tearing out what little hair I have remaining)

Well I hope this is going to be more help than Bill's mob. One of these days someone in the software industry is going to realise the value of providing proper meaningful and helpful support. Anyway I'll tuck me soapbox away get meself off to the relevant forum to see if I can fianlly find an answer to my question. Oh and BTW if you like classic rock come listen to www.thunderrockradio.com