Posted on 01/11/2017 8:29:28 PM PST by little jeremiah
May I ask a question of anyone - I just sat down at my laptop to do a few things and the only site I can reach so far is FR. Nothing else. No gmail, no national weather service, Drudge, Breitbart, etc. I can mysterious access FR. Every other site I keep trying is not opening. Am I the only one this is happening to?
I get this message on Chrome:
This site cant be reached
twitter.coms server DNS address could not be found. Try: Checking the proxy, firewall, and DNS configuration Running Windows Network Diagnostics DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG
And this on Firefox:
Server not found
Firefox cant find the server at forecast.weather.gov.
Check the address for typing errors such as ww.example.com instead of www.example.com If you are unable to load any pages, check your computers network connection. If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
Nothing YRE here. I fully expect anything.
Boy are you ever gonna’ to get it now.... Because you’re “logged in”
Did you try disconnecting and reconnecting your modem and your router from the wall outlet and then restarting your computer?
We have frequent power outages here and often things get a little screwed up and give weird behaviors similar to what you are describing.
Taking this to a private post
I loved that show! ‘Horizontal and Vertical’ lol! I wonder how many do not even have a clue what that refers to?! (I always used a tennis ball speared onto one of the rabbit ears to try and help!)
Enter this into you browser: http://67.215.92.219 and see what happens. If you DNS is hosed that is the IP address for OpenDNS.com DNS stands for Domain Name System, it is the server than converts the human form of a web site address into the computer form web site address.
What does YRE stand for?
Yup, having a few problems although minor I ran CCleaner and my anti-virus. Didn’t seem to be any problem there, but yes some weirdness.
Mine was similar
We live way out the in boondocks and often have problems but never, ever one where I can only get on FR and nothing else, and modem lights are all on.
It is a different browser, www.startpage.com
Power Cycle Everything. (You may need to pull the battery out of your Internet Modem to do this if it has battery backup).Did you try disconnecting and reconnecting your modem and your router from the wall outlet and then restarting your computer?
We have frequent power outages here and often things get a little screwed up and give weird behaviors similar to what you are describing.
90% of the time that will fix things.
The internet is not broken. Its just you.
Just reboot
use nslookup to find a websites ip address. Plug the ip address in the address bar and see if that works. There may be a problem with your provider.
from start menu type in ‘cmd’.
From the cmd window type: nslookup drudgereport.com
copy the ip address into the address bar.
This may work. It’s worth a try.
Using Opera I am getting a message on some sites, but not all and not FR, that says:
“Out of Memory
Either Opera ran out of memory or the process for the webpage was terminated for some other reason.
Try reloading the page, or navigate to another page to continue.”
I have never seen that message before. Very odd.....
I am going to sweep the computer with Malwarebytes and CC Cleaner and see if it solves the issue.
If anybody else has seen this message please let me know. Thanks!
Someone freepmailed me and explained it. Sadly, when I try in Firefox or Chrome, it doesn’t work. I am truly mystified.
I’ll try, but I’m afraid if I mess with the modem (it looks perfectly normal) I will lose the mysterious ethereal connection to FR! I may try it shortly, though.
Hmm, so that’s two of us with weird internet stuff.
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