January 30, 200818 yr This morning I found that when I clicked on my "favorites" link for the unRaid server I ended up on the Road-Runner search page instead on opening my unRaid server's management page. Something was going on and I had no idea what it was. (I had a telnet window open from the prior day, so I knew the server was still online) Doing a bit of investigation I found I could get to the unRaid tower by typing its IP address. The router somehow did not know how to get to it by name. I first tried re-booting my router. Did not help a bit. Coincidentally,this morning my wife had indicated she could not remotely get to her mail (on another PC) via the VNC program we use to get to the remote desktop. As it turns out, the two symptoms were related. Apparently, Road-Runner (my ISP) had hijacked ALL URLs that it could not route and configured itself to cause them to land on its search page (with its advertisers) This broke the ability to get to http://tower,'>http://tower, and for VNC to find my remote desktop on my LAN (apparently, my router must first try externally, and then on my internal LAN when resolving names) On the road-runner search page was a small link labeled "why did I get here" Clicking it went to a page that described how they were supposedly helping you. (by putting you on their advertisement driven search page) It also explained how you could OPT OUT of the new behavior and go back to the expected behavior. I clicked on the radio buttons on their page to disable their new feature and everything started working again soon thereafter. I can now type http://tower and get to the unRaid server, and I can also again use VNC to remotely get to the desktop of the machine where we read our mail. So... if you are unable to get to your unRaid server's management page when you type http://tower,'>http://tower, but instead land on a RoadRunner supplied search page beware... It is not something you did, it is something RoadRunner did. I decided to OPT OUT of their new search feature (even though they never asked me to OPT IN) If I need to do a search, I'll use Google. Joe L.
January 30, 200818 yr that's a common thing. i never rely on local WINS resolution, especially on my own LAN. might as well just use the IP. side note: you can force your own machine to go to a specific IP by editing your hosts file. Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\ is the default location Linux and other Unix-like operating systems: /etc
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