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To: Pox
I'm on a MacBook Pro via Time Warner Road Runner. While hard wired, my Network System Preferences shows the two DNS Server numbers mentioned in earlier posts. When I had my connection on wireless, I couldn't access FR. Message shown was that it couldn't find the server. This was tried on both Safari and Firefox. While on wireless, the only DNS servers that show up on my Network System Preferences are for Time Warner. When I attempt to add another server, the two for Time Warner are wiped out.

When I connected via ethernet, I can connect to FR on both. With Firefox, when I initially connected via my Bookmarks, FR came right up, and I scrolled through the posts. At one point, when I tried to connect to an older post, Firefox took me to a Time Warner page which listed FR and its link. Clicking on the link took me to FR Latest Articles. There was an option on the Time Warner page to find out:

"Why Am I Here? You entered an unknown web address that was used to present site suggestions that you may find useful. Clicking any of these suggestions provides you with search results, which may include relevant sponsored links. If this service is not right for you, please visit your Preferences page to opt out. At any point in time, you can opt back in to the service by visiting your Preferences page. If you have other questions about this service, please visit our FAQ."

Don't know what the hell that means, but since I use an ethernet connection most of the time, I'll keep connecting to FR that way. Hopefully this problem with the DNS will be worked out, and I'll be able to connect via wireless again.

124 posted on 04/04/2016 10:34:17 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

This will happen with corporate migrations. Eventually, the internet will pick up on whatever new addresses/hops are necessary to resolve to FR. It can take a few days.

As far as a MacBook goes, you want to do the following in the short term:

Apple —> System Preferences —> Network. Highlight Wifi. Click on Advanced. Go to DNS. Insert 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220.

OpenDNS will resolve to FR the right way. Google and the rest of the DNS servers should eventually resolve back to FR at some point in the near future.


125 posted on 04/04/2016 10:40:55 PM PDT by NYRepublican72 (Democrats -- it's always someone else's fault.)
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