HOSTS file ignored by IE6!!!

[Jope]

Do you use a proxy? The hosts file will help you only if you make your browser go directly.

Netinfo (what's wrong with typing nslookup in a cmd window, btw) will probably use IE's proxy settings.

[Jope]

Glaucus wrote:
I tried entering some other bogus URLs, just to see what would happen and to my surprise, I get the same Bad Gateway error.

Please reread my reply about proxies and check to see whether you have some defined in your browser's config.

[Jope]

Glaucus wrote:
Unless there's another location where I can check for a proxy, I am not using a proxy and never was.

No automatic configuration script either?

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