RE: Problem with browser(s) find a website

["Chuck Lewis" <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

AMEN to THAT Dan ! ! ! !

This is one of the weirder and harder to figure out problems I have had in a
LONG time. It was near as critical as some other things but was a bear to
try and find anything on. I never did find anything until post to you
fantastic people !

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Dan
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2005 10:20 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Problem with browser(s) find a website

On 8/9/05, Chuck Lewis <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Success !
> 
> Thanks everyone and John for the /release /renew hint. I had no idea that
> was in there, as I noted yesterday. Nice to know. The IP Address 0.0.0.0
> Subnet Mask 0.0.0.0 stuff went away and all is well with Mozilla and IE
now
> :-)

Cool, Chuck!

Now I have a question for the comm gurus/experts/etc. here.  Is there
a good reason (other than Microsoft was too lazy to do it), why this
release/renew stuff has to be done manually?  What is it that my eyes
see and my fingers do with WINIPCFG or IPCONFIG that Windows can't do
on its own?  If I've got an always-on connection (DSL, cable), why
can't Windows poll periodically (via pinging the ISP?) or at least
display an intelligent message in the browser (instead of clueless
"Unable to find site", how about "Hey, your IP address and/or subnet
mask or *something* looks amiss.  Try /releasing and /renewing via
Win9x/ME's WINIPCFG or Win2K/XP's IPCONFIG before tearing out your
hair over this.")

- Dan