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Unable to connect to certain sites
I've noticed that I am unable to connect to Yahoo recently, and Wikipedia loads veeeerrrrrryyyyy slllllooooooowwwww if at all. Since these sites don't seem to be having problems themselves, I was...
Hmmm. Will it work if you reboot everything? And by everything, I mean: Modem, router (if a separate one is used) and the device(s) you're using to go to these sites. It almost sounds like whatever DNS you're pointing to has a corrupt lookup entry (or entries). It's either that or you're somehow triggering a firewall somewhere, and that's not a usual occurrence.
Neither http nor https work.
I realize this is a heck of a way to try and diagnose a problem, but...
If after the link either fails or refuses to finish (basically sits continually waiting for a response from a server), have you tried a hard-refresh?
MarkJFine wrote:I realize this is a heck of a way to try and diagnose a problem, but...
If after the link either fails or refuses to finish (basically sits continually waiting for a response from a server), have you tried a hard-refresh?
Yes. No different results. Continues to hang/no response.
Interestingly, if I use a proxy, I can connect. Though the proxy I use strips down a lot of the site for privacy reasons.
No joy.
Is good
Hmmm. Will it work if you reboot everything? And by everything, I mean: Modem, router (if a separate one is used) and the device(s) you're using to go to these sites. It almost sounds like whatever DNS you're pointing to has a corrupt lookup entry (or entries). It's either that or you're somehow triggering a firewall somewhere, and that's not a usual occurrence.
MarkJFine wrote:Hmmm. Will it work if you reboot everything? And by everything, I mean: Modem, router (if a separate one is used) and the device(s) you're using to go to these sites. It almost sounds like whatever DNS you're pointing to has a corrupt lookup entry (or entries). It's either that or you're somehow triggering a firewall somewhere, and that's not a usual occurrence.
Rebooting the modem solved the problem.
