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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.
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.
Outstanding. I love it when things work.
