HOSTS file ignored by IE6!!!

[seer]

It's probably unrelated, but does your PC have more then 1 NIC ? Are there any more gateways defined in those NICs ?

Also, what happens if you go to http://127.0.0.1 or http//localhost ?

As a last test, hook up another computer on the lan and try to acces the website either bij DNS name or IP adress..

May not give anything to help, but it's worth to check it just in case..

[seer]

127.0.0.1 gives me this:
Server Error
The following error occurred:
[code=CANT_CONNECT_LOOPBACK] Cannot connect due to potential loopback problems

localhost gives me:
The page cannot be displayed[/b]

Try this;

tracert 127.0.0.1 in a CMD console, if you get more then 1 hop, you've got a problem, 1 I never seen before ;-)

Does your host file have a localhost entry ? Should be there as a standard (127.0.0.1 localhost)

And because another machine can acces the webpage by DNS, you pretty much excluded the webserver/apache as the problem..

[seer]

The messages you were getting seriously looked like proxy messages..

But then, local addresses are not through a proxy or DNS server.. Ofcourse, IE must be told to do that by the proxy settings..

[seer]

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.100 mike

Not sure if that is correct, you may want to try

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 mike

I'm running a webserver on my work PC at home, and only use the default host file.. But I don't know if Apache requires it or not (I just use IIS..)

I don't think it's a DNS error as your PC shouldn't need to access a DNS to find it's own DNS name.. Offcourse, you can always try to disable the NIC, do another DNS flush and try to it again with the NIC still disabled..