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IE gives me "bad gateway" error when trying to access intranet sites thru vpn
I connect to the office with the Contivity VPN Client V04_65.30 from Nortel Networks. I connect just fine and can do most things, including accessing intranet sites via Netscape. Its just IE that is the problem. I get this error when trying to access an intranet site:
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Bad Gateway
The following error occurred:
[code=DNS_HOST_NOT_FOUND] The host name was not found during the DNS lookup. Contact your system administrator if the problem is not found by retrying the URL.
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Please contact the administrator.
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Help desk at the 'office' isn't much help, unfortunately, but I need to access an application that I developed that runs on the intranet with IE. Apparantly I'm the only one who has this problem.
The only protection that I have running is zonealarm, and it doesn't matter whether it is on or not. I have no Norton applications running.
I've got all kinds of security settings on IE set low, and all my settings seem to be what help desk says they should be. The version of IE is: 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2... I'm running XP Pro.
In IE -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections: its all blank. 'Never dial a connection' is selected, but greyed out. Under Lan settings: 'Automatically detect settings' is the only thing selected. I'm on cable.
I hope this is just a stupid setting that I've missed. Perhaps somebody has run into this before??
Thanks,
Janice
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Bad Gateway
The following error occurred:
[code=DNS_HOST_NOT_FOUND] The host name was not found during the DNS lookup. Contact your system administrator if the problem is not found by retrying the URL.
--------------------------
Please contact the administrator.
"
Help desk at the 'office' isn't much help, unfortunately, but I need to access an application that I developed that runs on the intranet with IE. Apparantly I'm the only one who has this problem.
The only protection that I have running is zonealarm, and it doesn't matter whether it is on or not. I have no Norton applications running.
I've got all kinds of security settings on IE set low, and all my settings seem to be what help desk says they should be. The version of IE is: 6.0.2800.1106.xpsp2... I'm running XP Pro.
In IE -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections: its all blank. 'Never dial a connection' is selected, but greyed out. Under Lan settings: 'Automatically detect settings' is the only thing selected. I'm on cable.
I hope this is just a stupid setting that I've missed. Perhaps somebody has run into this before??
Thanks,
Janice
Can you ping the host you're trying to connect to? If so you might try connecting using the IP address. Although this won't solve your problem, it might be a work around.
I'd put the either the VPN's default gateway or the proxy server for Internal LAN in the IE -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections - Lan setting -Proxy details.
If you don't know them - check with the local IT team.
I'd also check that setting on Netscape and see if they have been change at all.
If you don't know them - check with the local IT team.
I'd also check that setting on Netscape and see if they have been change at all.
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Well, I can't ping the IP address that the help desk gave me, and they don't want me to try anything in the lan settings for IE, since that's not how their stuff is set up.
I checked Netscape's settings, but it all looks pretty generic.
I'm tempted to uninstall IE, but I can't afford for things to go squirrelly on me now :(
J
I checked Netscape's settings, but it all looks pretty generic.
I'm tempted to uninstall IE, but I can't afford for things to go squirrelly on me now :(
J
Try going into the command prompt and typing ping <hostname and domain>. For instance: "ping host1.expertsexchange.com"
I'm assuming that's the format of the address you are putting into netscape and successfully connecting with, If you can resolve that name with your DNS settings it will give you the IP address of the host. Then put that ip address into IE and see what happens. Hopefully b/c you are bypassing DNS by providing the IP address directly you won't get that error and won't have to change anything drastic.
I'm assuming that's the format of the address you are putting into netscape and successfully connecting with, If you can resolve that name with your DNS settings it will give you the IP address of the host. Then put that ip address into IE and see what happens. Hopefully b/c you are bypassing DNS by providing the IP address directly you won't get that error and won't have to change anything drastic.
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I got the ip address of two of the servers I can't connect to, and tried using the ip address in both Netscape and IE. Netscape worked both times, and IE gave me a 500 error both times.
Do you think re-installing IE would help?
Do you think re-installing IE would help?
Couldn't hurt.... Netscape is definately not using a proxy server, right?
When you pinged, you got the IP address but was the ping successful?
When you pinged, you got the IP address but was the ping successful?
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Netscape is definately not using a proxy server.
When I pinged, I got the IP address but the ping was unsuccessful. (Timed out)
When I pinged, I got the IP address but the ping was unsuccessful. (Timed out)
Generally, if your VPN is configured properly you should be able to ping the remote LAN. If it weren't for Netscape working, I'd say the VPN isn't set up right. Netscape isn't getting a cahced page, is it (working offline)?
I'd give What90's suggestion a try then do the reinstall. If you're still stuck after that, I'd look at the VPN.
I'd give What90's suggestion a try then do the reinstall. If you're still stuck after that, I'd look at the VPN.
ASKER
Netscape isn't getting cached pages (one of the sites I'm hitting is a web application and it works fine right up to the point that javascript stops me.)
When you say 'look at the VPN'... do you mean on my end or on the server's? Help desk has walked me through my setup and it is as they recommend. Is it possible the problem is at their end?
JJ
When you say 'look at the VPN'... do you mean on my end or on the server's? Help desk has walked me through my setup and it is as they recommend. Is it possible the problem is at their end?
JJ
Does help desk think you shouldn't be able to ping the LAN from your computer? That's a big problem. Unless that's some sort of "feature" on Contivity client. Although I haven't used that one, every VPN client I've used creates a tunnel from the client computer to the remote LAN/VPN Server. It seems like your packets (with the excpeption of Netscape) aren't going through the tunnel and are just using your default gateway and thus getting lost. I commiserate with you having to deal with a useless helpdesk but you're going to need thier help to troubleshoot this as you don't have access to the remote VPN server.
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It is not IE it is the website you are connecting to check the app you developed
502: Bad gateway
The server from which you tried to access a document needed to obtain that document from another server, and received an error message from that server in the process.
502: Bad gateway
The server from which you tried to access a document needed to obtain that document from another server, and received an error message from that server in the process.
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Why do you need to access it from IE? I am confused I thought it was developed for IE? Are you just trying to test it and make sure different browsers can use it?
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Ahh unless I miss my guess he has developed this app and is using IE for it and netscape for all other browsing. He needs to check his app more than likely it is a permission or coding issue.
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I need to get to my application with IE because it was developed exclusively for IE and there is some javascript in there that won't run in Netscape. I need to be able to access my app in test and prod, so I need to get there from IE.
For all the other intranet documents I need to get to, I can use Netscape.
There are several servers that are only accessable via the intranet, and I can't get to any of them from IE, just Netscape. Its not just my app that does this, it it any intranet site.
I'm going to bug help desk today some more and try some of things you folks have suggested.
For all the other intranet documents I need to get to, I can use Netscape.
There are several servers that are only accessable via the intranet, and I can't get to any of them from IE, just Netscape. Its not just my app that does this, it it any intranet site.
I'm going to bug help desk today some more and try some of things you folks have suggested.
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Looks like a 3 way split.
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I am very sorry. I will split the points.