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vsp · 03-24-2003, 12:26 AM

Never mind about IE 6.0.

I decided to try the "is it the browser" theory firsthand. I burned Opera, Mozilla and Netscape Communicator to a CDR, took them over, installed Mozilla and connected to AOL. Same "ICMP Inbound" warning from Norton, same no-DNS problem even after I tried it again after disabling Norton.

The AOL support drone told of a way to download IE directly through AOL's software, even without using IE functionality. This worked, and we now have IE 6.0x installed on the PC. SAME PROBLEM. No DNS. (There was a seemingly non-critical "AddCRL" error during the install, but it didn't stop the process.)

There are two remaining possibilities, as far as I can tell:

1) Something within WinME is corrupted that, for whatever reason, is screwing up http traffic (though AIM and mail traffic get through fine). An upgrade to WinXP is not out of the question, albeit expensive.

2) Something within AOL was changed on the server end, and the support drones either weren't told or aren't talking. An upgrade to AOL 8.0 is a possibility, to see if that clears things up.

First things first, though -- I may subscribe for a month of dialup service from somebody local, maybe giving Avi's people a call and upgrade my shell account after all these years. If a straight DUN connection works on my system, I'll try DUN with the same settings on my Dad's, and if THAT fails, then I'll believe that it's something wrong in the OS. If it works, then AOL will have hell to pay.

03-24-2003, 12:26 AM	#4
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	Never mind about IE 6.0. I decided to try the "is it the browser" theory firsthand. I burned Opera, Mozilla and Netscape Communicator to a CDR, took them over, installed Mozilla and connected to AOL. Same "ICMP Inbound" warning from Norton, same no-DNS problem even after I tried it again after disabling Norton. The AOL support drone told of a way to download IE directly through AOL's software, even without using IE functionality. This worked, and we now have IE 6.0x installed on the PC. SAME PROBLEM. No DNS. (There was a seemingly non-critical "AddCRL" error during the install, but it didn't stop the process.) There are two remaining possibilities, as far as I can tell: 1) Something within WinME is corrupted that, for whatever reason, is screwing up http traffic (though AIM and mail traffic get through fine). An upgrade to WinXP is not out of the question, albeit expensive. 2) Something within AOL was changed on the server end, and the support drones either weren't told or aren't talking. An upgrade to AOL 8.0 is a possibility, to see if that clears things up. First things first, though -- I may subscribe for a month of dialup service from somebody local, maybe giving Avi's people a call and upgrade my shell account after all these years. If a straight DUN connection works on my system, I'll try DUN with the same settings on my Dad's, and if THAT fails, then I'll believe that it's something wrong in the OS. If it works, then AOL will have hell to pay. Last edited by vsp; 03-24-2003 at 12:31 AM.