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DNS / Networking issues (Server not found)


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Guest XaserIII

Hi there,

I'm facing some... weird.. issues with DNS requests. I don't know exactly when it started but it has gone real bad in the past few days. Basically every 2-3 link I click / site I load in Firefox 27 leads to a "Server not found" error, forcing me to manually reload the site (one or a few times) until the site is loaded properly.

First I thought that the issue was entirely FF related and I consulted a few similar issue threads accross the web, deactivated DNS prefechting and flushed my DNS. However I now noticed that other programs have issues as well (e.g. the Secure Download Manager, self written C# WebClient applications, Visual Studio update etc.).

Does anybody have an idea where this issue might come from?

I also tried determining the current DNS server I'm using using ipconfig but that just shows the IP of my U.S. Robotics Router and I couldn't find anything in the router settings either.

Thanks in advance,

Max

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Don't know if this handy tool would help *anyone* but check it out.

http://lifehacker.com/5420931/namebench-helps-you-find-the-fastest-dns-server-for-your-computer

Disclaimer - I have *not* downloaded and tried (yet).

FYI - I've had that on occasion as well. Having a router does the same thing (ipconfig) for me. The Router has a DNS IP as well.

edit - HAH! Simple Online "nslookup" that *may* help -

http://www.kloth.net/services/nslookup.php

(with another disclaimer)

MS' NSLOOKUP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/200525

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Guest XaserIII

Hi,

just to see if it fixes the issue, I changed my DNS server from my local ISP DNS to googles public DNS and until now, I didn't have any issues. I might call my ISP tomorrow and ask them to fix the issue. If I get issues with the google DNS server I'll report back, but thanks for the links.

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