"ARTHUR" <al2502@poczta.fm> wrote in message news:cb6eaf7a-881b-484b-9cb1-3cef5cdc4159@o21g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...
>I use IE 8, SP3, and the add-on search bar in the top right corner of
> the browser is Google.
>
> It occasionally happens that I type in a URL (www.plusjozef.pl )
> address and the IE8 doesn't take me to the required site.
> Instead, I
> see a list of google search results where the name of the required
> site is at the top.
>
> If the default search bar is yahoo, then yahoo search results come
> up.
>
> Why does Google take over and how to turn it off?
Because what you are typing is not a full URL
and because your DNS may be too slow doing a lookup
for what you typed to be used as a test URL before
a handoff is made for that search argument to your
Address bar search OR because your DNS is deciding
that that lookup would fail and then as a feature,
which you may or may not have any control over,
passes that search argument to *its* search engine.
>
> I've checked in Tools/Adds-on and nothing relating to google (yahoo)
> is turned on. Also, I've chosen reset in Tools/Internet Options/
> Advanced and still no change. Any idea how to get rid of search
> results and get straight to the requested site?
If it still happens with a full URL, e.g. including a protocol prefix,
test the lookup with a ping -n 1 in a cmd window before trying to make
IE do the lookup. That way you can get the lookup cached so that
IE's is done from XP's dnscache. BTW ipconfig /displaydns shows
that the Time To Live (TTL) of this cached lookup would be quite long...
<displaydns>
www.plusjozef.pl
----------------------------------------
Record Name . . . . . :
www.plusjozef.pl
Record Type . . . . . : 5
Time To Live . . . . : 14343
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
CNAME Record . . . . : plusjozef.pl
</displaydns>
That's interesting. This cached record would be useless by itself for doing
what you want--making IE's lookup independent of your DNS.
See the CNAME (canonical name) Record? I was expecting that to be
an A (Host) Record with an IP Address.
Oops. I had overlooked that the ping -n 1 actually had warned me of this...
<cmd_output OS="XPsp3">
E:\>ping -n 1
www.plusjozef.pl
Pinging plusjozef.pl [69.72.205.90] with 32 bytes of data:
</cmd_output>
See the second name referred to by the reverse lookup of the IP Address
being pinged? So what you would really need to do then to make sure
you had a fully cached lookup would be to ping the second name too
and make sure that it had a cached A record afterwards...
<displaydns>
plusjozef.pl
----------------------------------------
Record Name . . . . . : plusjozef.pl
Record Type . . . . . : 1
Time To Live . . . . : 13565
Data Length . . . . . : 4
Section . . . . . . . : Answer
A (Host) Record . . . : 69.72.205.90
</displaydns>
Now it would work. BTW this suggests that you actually might have
better luck with your current procedure, e.g. just entering a search argument
that looks like a host name, by entering only the domain name instead.
Then how successful you were in getting a page rendered that way
would depend on how the page was coded and whether any redirects
were needed to get it fully loaded.
FWIW the Privacy Report (Alt-V,v) shows that the domain name would be
retained while rendering the rest of the page, at least as far as getting the
main components loaded.
>
> Thanks for any help.
HTH
Robert Aldwinckle
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