well, let’s just say that networking is often the bane of my existence. It usually happens once every couple of months. It being some random thing that makes one or more of my systems start behaving in a strange way. Well, just recently, it hit me again. one of my many machines suddenly couldn’t connect to my sap systems, it couldn’t connect to my JaveLLin Solutions website, but everything else was fine. I fumbled about playing with adapter settings, checking boxes, unchecking boxes, restarting my machine and on and on… All the while trying not to pull my own hair out.
finally, I took a look at the host file:
\windows\system32\drivers\etc\host
Well, for some odd reason, my SAP address and my javellinsolutions address were both pointing to some random IP address.
It says the file hasn’t been changed in 3 years… but I find that hard to believe, since this system was working fine last week.
Strange… anyway, be on the lookout if anything strange like this happens to you.
Thanks for reading,
Mike