Error 623

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I keep having this error message "Error 623 The System Could Not Find the Phone Book Entry for this Connection", i have been on a few sites and they refer to a VPN connection.

The message is happens when i run portable FF of my USB pen...

Any ideas? btw: i have no VPN connection, although have not tried this at home, so far i have tried this at work + college where we are behind a Proxy...

 

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Have you entered the proxy settings into the Portable FF's conection properties?

Have never used (or even heard of Portable FF until tonight), so can't really offer much help.

 

@ work the proxy is correct, my internet works fine...
@ college - we dont have a proxy, but we have web-site filtering, i say we dont have a proxy cuz i check auto-detect network settings, and the Error 623 still happens.
@ home - everything works ok, no error
@ SGUK see thread

Cheers...

 

Er - web-filtering implies a proxy somewhere!

Harry.

 

so how come i just click on autodetect settings? and enter nothing else?

 

although i disagree with harry that web filtering implies a proxy (in my book they are not the same thing), enabling the autodetect option means just what it says it does: your browser can autodetect a proxy server on the network if the administrator has configured it so. all proxy info (proxy server, port, exceptions, etc.) are stored in a wpad.dat file, of which the location is announced via dns or dhcp. [edit] so it's a config that has to specifically be configured on the network. just enabling the autodetect option does not give the browser any special capabilities to find a proxy server on its own.

 

hmm, makes sense now, so at work, it doesn't detect, i have to input the settings myself... so any ideas on the original error mesgagge?

 

tcm, have you looked at this and/or this?

 

i'll see what happens at work on MOnday... cheers d!

 

<grin>

If you connect to a remote IP on port 80 then you aren't filtered or proxied. If, when you attempt it *something* gets in the way then you are both filtered and proxied. You may not know about it - some ISPs are good at hiding it. But it is there. And there is no guarantee that your system will discover it.

Harry.

 

i'm not sure what part of my post you are responding to, nor do i understand the relevance of the isp or any other interfering hop on the route to the web server, at least not in light of the problem stated in this thread.
i'm probably splitting hairs, but all i'm saying is that in a corporate network you can have a web filter or you can have a proxy server, or you can have both, either integrated or not, but that imho they are not the same thing, and that a web filter usually does not require any special configuration of the browser.

 

cant access registry... dont matter, i'll just have to live with it.