Re: Can't get to web site home page

Mike Middleton ( (no email) )
Tue, 5 May 1998 07:54:24 -0500

Don't send packets that large.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Services\Current Control Set\Tcpip\Parameters\MTU

It is REG_DWORD

I suggest 200(hex) or 512 decimal.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: John Bichao Jr. <johnb@cascadenet.com>
To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com <ntisp@emerald.iea.com>
Date: Monday, May 04, 1998 9:12 AM
Subject: RE: Can't get to web site home page

>I think I found the problem. It's not MS DNS or IIS. The router supplied to
>my friend by his bandwidth provider is chopping off packets larger than
>1431. That's why everything works fine internally(web, mail, etc.) and from
>outside you can ping and trace route to everything(Only 32 bytes). So
that's
>why a browser finds the site starts to download and pukes. Same with trying
>to log into a pop mailbox - finds the box -logs in - sees how many messages
>then pukes when trying to retrieve. Thanks for everyone's replies and hope
>this can help someone else someday. Oh, one more thing.
>
>I'd like to kick the bandwidth providers network people in the behind for
>trying to get me to reinstall everything because it was obvious I set it
all
>up wrong and that it couldn't be their fault because they could ping and
>trace route to it. Ya right!
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Middleton (LANCO) [mailto:mike@lanco.net]
>Sent: Saturday, May 02, 1998 11:44 AM
>To: John Bichao Jr.
>Subject: Re: Can't get to web site home page
>
>
>I see your server, it can't see (or server up) default.htm. I suspect you
>have a default.asp and there's something wrong with it... maybe. It's in
>there somewhere.
>
>Good luck,
>Mike
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John Bichao Jr. <johnb@cascadenet.com>
>To: 'NT ISP mailing list' <NTISP@emerald.iea.com>
>Date: Friday, May 01, 1998 12:02 PM
>Subject: Can't get to web site home page
>
>
>>Hi it's my first time using any lists like this so excuse me if I do
>>something that is generally considered annoying to users of the list. I am
>>trying to help a friend setup an ISP and so far here is my first problem.
>>From outside of the internal network we can not pull up his web site from
>>any browsers. At the moment it is IIS 3.0. I can ping both the web server
>IP
>>and registered name. From within a browser it says website found waiting
>for
>>reply but then eventually times out. Two things I have not done yet are
>>uninstall IIS and reinstall it and checked permissions(actually I think I
>>checked this but will double check tonight) The uninstall reinstall
>approach
>>doesn't seem right because it serves the http request internally just fine
>>and permissions I thought would prompt me if they were not correct. It
just
>>sits there and then times out. Sorry to be long winded but wanted to give
>>some info. Let me know if you need any further info. Any help is
>appreciated
>>because I am going over his place to help tonight. Thanks in advance.
>>
>>###############################################
>>John Bichao Jr.
>>MIS Manager
>>Cascade Systems Inc.
>>300 Brickstone Sq.
>>Andover MA 01810-1435
>>
>>Email: jbichao@cascadenet.com
>>Voice: (978) 749-7000 x243 Fax: (978) 749-7099
>>###############################################
>>
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