FP: FrontPage Appears to Hang When Using Dial-Up-Adapter

If 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.

If you are using DNS for name resolution, any call to the TCP/IP stack attempts to resolve to an IP address. If you are not connected to your Internet service provider, the DNS server available is not available. The computer attempts to wait until a DNS server replies.

To work around this problem, follow these steps:

1. Find the Hosts file (located in the C:\Windows\ folder). If it does not exist, rename Hosts.sam to Hosts.
2. 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 <fqdn>
   where <fqdn> 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 Example and the Domain is called Microsoft.com, add the following line to the Hosts file:
   127.0.0.1 example.microsoft.com