Microsoft KB Archive/194237

= FP98: FrontPage Appears to Hang When You Use Dial-Up-Adapter =

Article ID: 194237

Article Last Modified on 10/3/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft FrontPage 98 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q194237



For a Microsoft FrontPage 97 and earlier version of this article, see 153685.



SYMPTOMS
When you use a Dial-Up-Adapter to connect to the Internet and you are not currently connected, your computer may appear to hang (stop responding) when you use FrontPage Explorer or FrontPage TCP/IP Test.



CAUSE
If you are using DNS for name resolution, any call to the TCP/IP stack will attempt to resolve to an IP address. If you are not connected to your Internet service provider, there is no DNS server available. The computer will attempt to wait until a DNS server replies.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, follow these steps:  Find the Hosts file (located in the C:\Windows\ folder). If it does not exist, rename Hosts.sam to Hosts.  Open the Hosts file in a text editor (such as Notepad), and add the following line to the end of the file      127.0.0.1 where is the Fully Qualified Domain Name as specified on the DNS Configuration tab of the TCP/IP Properties tab (double-click the Network icon in Windows Control Panel). For example, if the Host is named Mycomputer and the Domain is called Mynetwork.com, you would add the following line to the Hosts file:      127.0.0.1       mycomputer.mynetwork.com 

Additional query words: Front Page lock up freeze crash

Keywords: kbbug kbpending KB194237

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