AT&T Uverse error on google - 404. That’s an error. The requested URL /cgi-bin/redirect.ha was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

One of my clients recently changed their internet service to AT&T UVerse. AT&T (in San Francisco) says they are no longer offering DSL, only UVerse. After setting up UVerse, one of my users was getting this error in Firefox when going to www.google.com:

404. That’s an error. The requested URL /cgi-bin/redirect.ha was not found on this server. That’s all we know.

She got a similar error when going to www.yahoo.com. After some research, this seemed to be a common theme in Uverse. I resolved this by clearing the cache in Firefox:

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/How%20to%20clear%20the%20cache

Annoying, but easy fix. Of note - she did not have this issue on IE 9. Just Firefox 11.

removing 6to4 adapters in Windows 7

I was working on a client machine that was having trouble acessing network drives. I did an ipconfig and found 200+ network adapters. After some research, it seemed there was an issue with having multiple 6to4 network adapters and they were screwing up the machine's networking.

I followed this blog post for the automation of the removal using devcon:

http://www.ryanvictory.com/posts/automating-6to4-adapter-removal-in-windows/

The automated method took probably 3 seconds to remove each 6to4 adapter, so it wasn't fast, but it was easy.

configuring company URL for Office365 webmail

There's a lot of misinformation I've found on creating a custom URL that goes to Office365 webmail.

You can always go to:

https://portal.microsoftonline.com

But if you want to create a custom URL with your company URL, you can simply create a CNAME record that points to Outlook.com

So if your domain name was xyz.com and you'd like mail.xyz.com to go to your Office365 webmail, you'd configure a CNAME record for mail that points to outlook.com