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<blockquote data-quote="Redrobes" data-source="post: 4869943" data-attributes="member: 40793"><p>Over the last few weeks theres been a lot of problems with DNS and site addresses going into no mans land. What I expect is happening is that your router (which does the DHCP - dynamic host control protocol) is setting up your network DNS gateway addresses and it gets these from either a) somewhere other than your ISP or b) is fixed like say you set it up with OpenDNS. When you plugged into the ISP router you probably booted and fetched their DNS server addresses which were different.</p><p></p><p>I found this week that some of my popular websites were offline for me and a bunch of web proxies but that it was up for some other people. If you plug back into your router and find a site that you cant access then open up a command promp and type:</p><p></p><p>ping <a href="http://www.sitethatsdown.com" target="_blank">www.sitethatsdown.com</a></p><p></p><p>(replaceing site thats down.com for the yours- obviously...) and see if it tells you that its unreachable. Whether it is or not is not quite such an issue. The thing is that next to the pings going out it will tell you the actual IP address of the site. Get your friend on the phone/email who can see the site to do same and compare the addresses to ensure that they are the same.</p><p></p><p>If they are not then you could ask friend for his DNS addresses. To do that, get him to type:</p><p></p><p>ipconfig /all</p><p></p><p>and look for the primary and secondary addresses (actually mine is saying just the one address). Then go into your router config page and set up the DHCP DNS entries to those given and reboot the machine. If you now go ping to site thats down you might get a different address listed and if thats the case then its likely that the browser will see the site.</p><p></p><p>Edit -- if its always true that your plug into ISP router works and your don't and if you on your machine go ipconfig /all in a command prompt when plugged into ISP or router and addresses are different, its very likely that your router has a "Get network settings from ISP" option in the WAN / DHCP settings area. If you do that then you should get their DNS addresses which should be better.</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Redrobes, post: 4869943, member: 40793"] Over the last few weeks theres been a lot of problems with DNS and site addresses going into no mans land. What I expect is happening is that your router (which does the DHCP - dynamic host control protocol) is setting up your network DNS gateway addresses and it gets these from either a) somewhere other than your ISP or b) is fixed like say you set it up with OpenDNS. When you plugged into the ISP router you probably booted and fetched their DNS server addresses which were different. I found this week that some of my popular websites were offline for me and a bunch of web proxies but that it was up for some other people. If you plug back into your router and find a site that you cant access then open up a command promp and type: ping [url]www.sitethatsdown.com[/url] (replaceing site thats down.com for the yours- obviously...) and see if it tells you that its unreachable. Whether it is or not is not quite such an issue. The thing is that next to the pings going out it will tell you the actual IP address of the site. Get your friend on the phone/email who can see the site to do same and compare the addresses to ensure that they are the same. If they are not then you could ask friend for his DNS addresses. To do that, get him to type: ipconfig /all and look for the primary and secondary addresses (actually mine is saying just the one address). Then go into your router config page and set up the DHCP DNS entries to those given and reboot the machine. If you now go ping to site thats down you might get a different address listed and if thats the case then its likely that the browser will see the site. Edit -- if its always true that your plug into ISP router works and your don't and if you on your machine go ipconfig /all in a command prompt when plugged into ISP or router and addresses are different, its very likely that your router has a "Get network settings from ISP" option in the WAN / DHCP settings area. If you do that then you should get their DNS addresses which should be better. Hope that helps. [/QUOTE]
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