WeirdAss Computer Problem

[Drontier]

This has happened twice (both this week). It is a very strange occurrence where I am unable to access any website with my browser except my school pages. I do NOT live on campus, and I pay for my own internet through COX communications. This makes absolutely no sense to me, but literally EVERYTHING is down. I can't access 2p2, yahoo, google, my bank info, facebook, you name it. My aim works during this period and my school eee.uci.edu and more also works. Does this make sense to anyone? Also, when I reboot everything is good again. I have avast! as my anti-virus and I use adaware. If you could help me out, thanks.

[blinden84]

are you wireless by any chance?

[BBill]

It seems to me that these types of problems, where AIM works but getting to websites doesn't are usually DNS problems. Sometimes the ISP dns servers get overworked or something happens and the cached information is not valid.

If you have the ip address for eee.uci.edu in the dns cache of 'your' computer then it doesn't have to go the the ailing IPS dns server to resolve and it will work ok. AIM does not seem to need dns after it connects so its not effected.

To see if its dns, when its Working properly

At a c:> prompt and type 'nslookup' and press enter you will see something like this

C:\Documents and Settings\me>nslookup
Default Server: cns.manassaspr.va.dc02.comcast.net
Address: 268.87.73.249

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Whe the problem is happening I would think if you typed 'nslookup' you would see something like this

C:\Documents and Settings\me>nslookup
*** Can't find address for server 268.87.73.249: Non-existent domain

and no new connections that require dns resolution will be possible.

rebooting will usually obtain a new connection to the dns server and it will work.
If this is the case then it s not a problem with your PC