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Accessing Companyweb from the Server Itself after 963027 or Windows 2008 SP 2

I came across an issue on SBS 2003 and SBS 2008 accessing http://companyweb on the server, after installing the cumulative security update for Internet Explorer (963027 or 969897) or Internet Explorer 8.0 or Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2.

To fix the problem

SBS2003

On an SBS 2003 server this issue can be fixed by applying update KB961143.

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Cannot resolve names in top level domains like .co.uk

I came across this the other day when trying to access a site that was in the top level domain .it, at first i just thought the site was down as other sites where working OK, but the site worked if I used my laptop which was accessing the net via 3g therefore different DNS [...]