Using IE with IP addresses

[baloney_mahoney]

OK, here's a little problem I'd like to see if anyone can solve it.

I use IE 6.0 (but I don't think version matters). If I want to go to a Web Site and I use the IP address instead of the domain name IE gives me a DNS error message. The IP address is correct but I cannot connect to the site. For example: I enter http://66.70.148.253 in the IE address bar. This results in a DNS error message. However, In a VB program I use the WebBrowser Control and when I execute the following command:
WebBrowser1.Navigate ("http://66.70.148.253") it does connect to that Web Site.

Anyone have any idea what is wrong with Internet Explorer?

[nscopex]

Futureedge technologys? I have no troubles etting there.... Check your Settings in IE

[baloney_mahoney]

I have installed IE 6.0 and re-installed it several times, I have gone through every IE setting there is, checking and double checking each and every one of them...they are correct. To the best of my knowledge there is no IE setting that has anything to do with how your browser interpets IP addresses (does my copy on my one PC see it as an IP address or does it think its a domain name and tries to translate it?). I have no problem going to that or any Web Site by using domain names but I cannot go to any Web Site by using the IP address yet using the WebBrowser Control in VB it has no problem connecting using IP addresses.

It is possible that it is a system problem because the same IE 6.0 was installed on my second PC and it has no problems whatsoever.

[John-]

are you having the problem with only that site (ip) or have you tried visiting other sites like that?

[nscopex]

Maybe they have a personal vendetta with you and blovked you from that site on the computer you're having the problem with. Otherwise I have neevr heard of anything like this.

[baloney_mahoney]

Well I really don't know who they are and it isn't just that site, it's all sites, and no, it isn't any or all web sites with a vendetta since I am able to connect to the same web sites using the WebBrowser Control and the WebBrowser Control is IE. I am going to re-install IE 5.0 and give it a test. If the same thing occurs then I know it isn't IE 6 per se.

[baloney_mahoney]

OK, problem solved. The problem was from a bad 'url.dll'. Don't know how it got bad but replacing the dll from the Windows 98 CD solved the problem.

[John-]

Glad you got it sorted, sorry i couldnt help.