browser can't find most websites

11 Oct 2006 5:22 AM

Valerie

Using windows xp and ie6, I suddenly get either "website not found" or it
just never goes to the website I can open my home page (adelphia.net) and a
few other sites but I can't use google, or the vast majority of websites. I
tried upgrading to IE7 and I tried netscape navigator, with the same results.
For examle, I can get to microsoft.com, amazon.com, dell.com, but not
google, not consummerreports.com, and not most other sites. Please help.

11 Oct 2006 5:34 AM

Chuck

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:22:01 -0700, Valerie <Vale***@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>Using windows xp and ie6, I suddenly get either "website not found" or it
>just never goes to the website I can open my home page (adelphia.net) and a
>few other sites but I can't use google, or the vast majority of websites. I
>tried upgrading to IE7 and I tried netscape navigator, with the same results.
> For examle, I can get to microsoft.com, amazon.com, dell.com, but not
>google, not consummerreports.com, and not most other sites. Please help.

Valerie,

Is that today, or for a while? There was a major Internet problem today (DNS
infrastructure nationwide), and I believe that Adelphia was involved. The
inconsistent website accessibility that you report is consistent with that.

If it's been happening for a while, look at your DNS, and then MTU, setups.
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/05/identifying-dns-problem-in-your.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2006/05/identifying-dns-problem-in-your.html
<http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/internet-connectivity-problems-caused.html>
http://nitecruzr.blogspot.com/2005/06/internet-connectivity-problems-caused.html

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Chuck, MS-MVP [Windows - Networking]
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