Dns and web servers question

[newshopbloke]

Hi all,

This isnt strictly an actinic question but will involve my shop when I move servers. Can someone explain why IE6 will bookmark the server address instead of www.mydomain.com if someone performs a 'right click inside the page and then add to favourites' ? all other methods of bookmarking are fine.

This has never happened before with the way I set things up and if it relates to a new IE update im going to have to change everything for about 8 sites.

Any tips would be great,

Cheers

[pinbrook]

what is the url that does this, I've testeda couple of sites where the url is stored in fave and not the IP

[newshopbloke]

Thanks Jo,

This will show you exactly what I mean:

http://www.artscraft.co.uk/

Firefox = all bookmark methods use domain name
Netscape = all bookmark methods use domain name
Opera = all bookmark methods use domain name
IE = right click - add to favourites uses server address ?

I am officially confused........

Cheers

[newshopbloke]

I think I know what the problem is now.
If you do a right click + bookmark in ffox,opera,netscape its fine, if you do it in ie 6 its not but if you move the mouse right to the very edge of the page in ie it will right click + bookmark the domain properly.

Does this mean ie now renders frames differently than before ? It never used to be a problem and I could do anything anywhere without updating dns etc

Anyone had any experience of this ?

[RuralWeb]

I suspect it is to do with the fact that the page is framed:

Your browser does not support frames.<BR>
To view our web site click here:<BR>
<a href="http://207.210.84.84/artscraft_test_page.html">
http://207.210.84.84/artscraft_test_page.html
</a>

So when you right click it is storing the IP url and not the domain.

[newshopbloke]

Yep, but its not me doing the framing.
Its done by the domain host to mask the url and I have been using it for years without fault or error. I can only assume that ie now renders this frame differently (good old microsoft).

Oh well, looks like im going to have to mess about with dns from now on........what a pain !

Many thanks

Mick

[pinbrook]

if you feel you will lose visitors when you move IP you should remove the masked framing and use a 301 redirect instead.

when you move servers use a 301 to redirect visitors from the old url to the new.

The sad fact is that it is unlikely that microsoft will change it.

[wjcampbe]

I can confirm IE7 Beta behaviour is the same as IE6 - the IP is bookmarked.

[newshopbloke]

Thanks Bill,

Heres something to confuse everyone, one of my friends has just performed a test and can right click anywhere on the page and only see the domain name and guess what.....he is using exactly the same version of IE to me !

He also tested all of my domains that use url masking / forwarding and they all bookmark the domain no matter where or how he chose to bookmark them !

Im expecting paul daniels to pop up on my pc and say "now thats magic"

[wjcampbe]

Sound more like a PC installation that is not being updated to me

[clefty]

Just a quick idea that can help clear DNS problems.
At the command prompt type

ipconfig /flushdns

This will remove any corrupted entries from your local DNS cache

Then try your bookmark again

[newshopbloke]

Clefty, you have just ended many many hours of frustration
I wish we had a 'flush dns' button on IE 6 !

At least I know its working now.

[pinbrook]

I wish we had a 'flush dns' button on IE 6 !

flush DNS is not a browser command, it will work on any PC regardless of OS