Ie8 Cannot Access Intranet Site

[karenko]

Another odd duck after my Server 2008 installation...

 

Internet Explorer 8 (or any other version of IE) cannot access local sites (e.g. on my Intranet). Example: My hardware router/firewall is set up at IP address 192.168.1.2 - one accesses/controls it via IE (it has a builtin web-server). When I try to access http://192.168.1.2 - IE8 punts me through the router itself on to the Internet (no longer on my LAN/Intranet) and I get a "192.168.1.2 not found" from bing. Yes, I've added 192.168.1.2 to my security -> intranet -> add setting for IE8. I can ping it just fine (it is working as I'm getting routed/forwarded out to the Internet) - it is just that I cannot specifically access that local IP address. (also I tried turning off IE-ESC but same results)

 

Also - workstations can no longer access that local IP address (they're running either IE6 or IE8). Same scenario - they get punted on the Internet. I tried to add 192.168.1.2 to their IE settings... (didn't work).

 

Might it be some sort of Group Policy that is overriding my ability to add the local Intranet IP address(es)?

 

(I do need to access that router... :) )

 

Thanks for any suggestions!

 

AMK

[mmthomas]

Are you setup to use a proxy in IE? If so, do you have it checked to bypass proxy for local sites?

[karenko]

Are you setup to use a proxy in IE? If so, do you have it checked to bypass proxy for local sites?

 

 

Matt -

 

Thanks for the good suggestion. No, I'm not using a proxy server - or at least I haven't overtly set up a proxy server. The IE Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings is set up for "Automatically Detect" (and no specific proxy server definition nor bypass of it for locals/intranet checked). The auto-detect certainly makes me skeptical that a proxy server may be lurking around somewhere and confusing my IEs. I poked around in the Group Policies to see if somehow I set up a proxy server (or one was set up in my behalf?) but I couldn't find anything. That's not to say definitively that one doesn't exist, only that that I cannot verify it's existence or not. Indeed there is something I could (well, most likely) be missing but I'm not sure where to look right now.

 

Thx again.

 

AMK

[mmthomas]

What kind of router/firewall is it and have you restarted it since you started having this problem connecting to it?

[karenko]

Well...

 

The router/firewall is a Linksys BEFVP41. No, I didn't shut it down or restart it at any time.

 

... so I powered it (the BEFVP41) down and restarted it. "Suddenly" I was able to access it via the intranet (hurrah); but I couldn't get through it to the internet. A reboot of the server solved that problem. Now everything works just as it should (e.g. internet passthrough, intranet/local access, even DNS aliasing of my local sites).

 

I never would have thought to restart the router. Matt, thank you very much for the suggestion/solving my problem; I owe you a coffee! :)

 

AMK