Ip address resolution problem

Hello,
I have just installed a webserver running IIS6 on the company testbed (with a view to going live later on next year)

Its is a win2k (DNS/DHCP) network, while the webserver (running IIS) is Win2003.(changed from win2k IIS5)

Everything works fine, except I can't access the default.html page (homepage) with the IP address. It resolves ok with the host name (http://abcde.com), but trying the http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. displays a "page cant be found" error message instead.
It does resolve ftp host & ip , so that I cant pinpoint where the problem's from.

Can anyone assist?

Did you add any ip blocks in the server?

Are you using the same IP that your host url resolves to? Ping from a command prompt is a quick way to get the ip. <ping abcde.com> should show the IP.

Hi doug,


The dns Server IP is 192.168.10.1.
The webserver IP is 192.168.10.102

when I ping host url "abcde.com", it resolves to webserver IP (192.168.10.102) which is correct.

I havent blocked any IP as this is a fresh setup (the problem does occurs from any of the clients workstations including the webserver itself)

Summary:
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http://abcde.com - resolves ok.
ftp://abcde.com = = resolves ok.
ftp://192.168.10.102 == resolves ok.
http://192.168.10.102 = ="page cant be found"
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I understand there might be a facility to enable ip address resolution on Win2003 (disabled by default apparently - are you aware of this? cause I've never heard such a thing)

Thanks mate.

Sorry, I don't know 2003 well.

Your problem makes no sense to me, but there must be a simple solution somehwere.