Unable to navigate using IP yet can using URL 1

[rockiwood]

Thanks for advice in advance.

My problem is this:
On our network we are using an IP address to navigate to a particular website on the WAN which is not at our location.

I installed the latest Windows Updates, rebooted the Server, which is also the DNS server locally. Now I can browse the Internet, yet am unable to navigate to the website using the IP address. I can navigate to it using the FQDN. The address can be PING'ed with no problem.

I can browse to any website without problems.

In addition I can no longer Remote Desktop using IP, but can using Name.

I can navigate to an HP printer using IP.

I have removed 3 of the updates that were installed before the reboot to no avail.

What would make IP navigation stop working yet everything else is working?

I hope I explained this properly.

Jerry

 

[lhuegele]

If you can still reach HP printers using IP, but not other things, it sounds like your HP printers may be the only devices with fixed IP addresses? When you ping a host name do you get the IP address returned? Is it different than what you expected?

 

[F1lby]

Is the website set up for virtual servers?

i.e. hosting multiple domains on a single box using the same IP address and port?

If this is the case, then it's possible that the issue you're experiencing is correct.