First Attempt "Not Found", Second always works...??

This happens when I'm accessing web pages, news servers, and mail servers.

Doesn't happen all the time, but maybe 1 in 5 times.

I click, get "...not found...", immediately click again, and whatever I'm trying to get to is found.

Covad DSL, Windows 2000 Pro.

Any thoughts?

Reply to
(Pete Cresswell)
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The DNS server is taking longer to respond than the timeout used by your browser or your resolver library.

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Neil W Rickert

Per Neil W Rickert:

Thanks.

Sounds like I sb changing something...but what?

Can't find anything in IE6's Tools|Internet Options.

I see an "Idle Time" in Covad's proprietary connection manager, but nothing else.

Maybe some kind of registry setting?

Reply to
(Pete Cresswell)

Maybe your connection is messed up so that the first time thru it fiddles around but once connected it is solid. You might try the ISP's tech support(?)

LB

Reply to
LB

Suspect a DNS problem, either server (do you have backup DNS servers listed? Check IPCONFIG, add your ISP's backup DNS IP) or timeout (check in browser settings, usually 120-150 seconds). Are you running a local DNS cache? (check timeout, flush that cache and restart).

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RWM

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