Site access question for the guru's

[old_man]

I am running Small Business Server 2003. All of the sudden I am unable to access NAXJA from the server. I can hit any other sites, just not NAXJA. I am doing internet connection sharing to a couple of local machines from this server. These machines can access NAXJA through this connection, through the server using the same lan connection as the server. The problem is on both IE and Firefox.

I have rebooted the server to clear the cache, still same result.

Anybody have any ideas? I don't do server work enough to keep sharp on this.

My first thought is that some security software was blocking NAXJA. but I would think it would block local connections as well. I'm running Grisoft.

[Stihl029]

Can you ping "naxja.org" in command prompt?
If not then I would say that you might want to check your firewall and/or router to see if there is any blocking to the site. What has been changed to the server between the last time you successfully accessed the site on the server and your first failed attempt?

[RichP]

First off, shame on you for surfing with a server, thats a no-no, period, and yes it's a security setting, trusted sites or some MS BS. It's not under IE either, it's part of server management. Did you happen to have an SE come in lately and work on it. I just took down my last windows server at work, pure unix [redhat, FC, solaris and a couple of suse servers for testing. How long since you did the MS updates ?

[Stihl029]

On our ship's server I only used it to browse when our inmarsat connection was down or causing problems plus there were tools that I would have to use from higher up on the server. The server was noticeably slower than a workstation; but the two were on a kvm together so it was a quick swap.

[ChiXJeff]

naxja.org is up, the other aliases aren't rebuilt yet.

[old_man]

Nobody has touched the server in months. That includes me. My thought is it is related to another Microsoft update. I have been hosed many times by these.

[87manche]

First off, shame on you for surfing with a server, thats a no-no, period, and yes it's a security setting, trusted sites or some MS BS. It's not under IE either, it's part of server management. Did you happen to have an SE come in lately and work on it. I just took down my last windows server at work, pure unix [redhat, FC, solaris and a couple of suse servers for testing. How long since you did the MS updates ?

x2, don't surf with the server!

anyway, Rich may be correct on that. Does IE start up to a security page and talk about hardened security?

My bet is on some sort of a DNS setting, when you use the wizards to setup internet connection sharing and such in server 2k3 it always defaults itself as the primary DNS server. If you don't have any other DNS settings on the machine it won't surf.