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I'm still having problems with viewing CNET sites [Please see Old Thread before posting]

Unfortunately, the solution that worked is not working now.

I was told to put this in the hosts file:

216.239.115.148 download.com
216.239.115.148 www.download.com
216.239.115.131 cnet.com
216.239.115.131 www.cnet.com

When that is in the host file (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts), I can ping the CNET sites and it's successful. When it is not in the hosts file, ping is unsuccessful.

So, I put the code in the hosts file and I get a successful ping from download.com. So when I try and view it, I get this:


And when the code isn't in the hosts file, the websites apparently doesn't exist.

It is the same in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera.

any (more) ideas?

Thanks in advance.

have you contacted your isp about this yet?

It's because the CSS is on some weird site. ( http://i.d.com.com/css/dl/dl_global.css )

65.200.201.174 i.d.com.com

try adding that to your hosts file.

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition
65.200.201.174 i.d.com.com

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No, I don't know how. I'm with NTL.

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Originally posted by Ddunk
It's because the CSS is on some weird site. ( http://i.d.com.com/css/dl/dl_global.css )

65.200.201.174 i.d.com.com

try adding that to your hosts file.

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Thank you! It works

Don't see why I should have to go thorugh all this trouble though?

edit: had to put
65.200.201.174 dw.com.com
on the list aswell because when I clicked on something I wanted to download it said it didn't exist.

and i.i.com.com to make cnet.com work! this is stupid

basically i've got to add every subdomain to make it work...

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Originally posted by chris4
basically i've got to add every subdomain to make it work...

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cnet probably uses a lot of other things (eg: stylesheet) located on subdomains... and since the hosts file doesn't accept wildcards