Path Traveled Start Server does not hang during boot All other Windows clients display this symptom, or there are no other Windows Clients, or it's too difficult to test the other Windows clients The Linux server can ping its own address from its console's command line The Windows machine can ping the IP address of the Linux server The Linux server can ping the offending name or IP, or the offending name or IP is the same as the server's main IP. The Windows client can ping the offending name or IP, or the offending name or IP is the same as the server's main IP. It appears to be a http or web or browser problem The offending URL  DID NOT display web page properly on the Linux server's copy of Netscape.

There's something wrong either with the web page or the Linux server's web server software (httpd, Apache). Here are some things to investigate:

• Do other URL's on the same website work?
• Is the html file corresponding to the URL present and in the correct directory? Is it readable by all?
• If the problem is in a CGI script, diagnose it first from the command line.
• Is httpd running? Do command
  ps ax | grep httpd
• Does the http://hostname.domainname for the Linux box work (present the preconfigured apache page or something you replaced it with)? Does http://IPaddress for the Linux box work (present the preconfigured apache page or something you replaced it with)?
• If the URL is a virtual server, does its IP address in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf <virtual host> match an IP address in the range identified in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:0?
• Is that IP address matched up with the proper URL in /var/named/named.forward? (Probably so because you already established that naming was working well).