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Internet Problems
Posted: Tue 07 Mar, 2006 22.11
by Adders
Today, I've noticed problems whilst trying to access several websites. Including msn.com bbc.co.uk and google.com
Is this a problem with my ISP or is anyone else experiencing similar problems?
Posted: Tue 07 Mar, 2006 22.27
by Chris
Who's your ISP?
Posted: Tue 07 Mar, 2006 22.32
by Nick Harvey
More to the point, what, exactly, are your problems?
Then we might be able to have a guess at whether we've had anything similar.
Parts of the BBC site appeared to be a bit slow early this evening, but that's about all, and isn't that unusual at that time of day.
Posted: Tue 07 Mar, 2006 22.35
by Bail
Mine's been much the same, most sites work if you refresh hard enough, although it point blank refuses to connect to eBay. I'm on an ntl dsl connection.
Posted: Tue 07 Mar, 2006 22.37
by Adders
I'm on ntl
Posted: Tue 07 Mar, 2006 22.37
by Nick Harvey
Bail wrote:although it point blank refuses to connect to eBay
That'll cut down drastically on the spam, then, eh?
Posted: Tue 07 Mar, 2006 22.39
by Psythor
I'm on NTL, and there's been loads of DNS problems this evening- not being able to sign in to MSN, and Google, BBC News not working, among others.
An way around this (and I've no idea why this is working but websites arnt) is going into a command prompt (Start-->run-->type "cmd" and hit enter), and pinging a domain ("ping google.com") and copying the IP address it finds and pasting it into your browsers address bar. eg:
http://64.233.167.99
Posted: Tue 07 Mar, 2006 22.56
by Neil Jones
Psythor wrote:An way around this (and I've no idea why this is working but websites arnt) is going into a command prompt (Start-->run-->type "cmd" and hit enter), and pinging a domain ("ping google.com") and copying the IP address it finds and pasting it into your browsers address bar. eg:
http://64.233.167.99
Because when you type in
http://www.google.com all your web browser does is go to another computer and ask "where can I find google.com?".
This other computer says "you'll find it at 64.233.167.99" and off your browser goes to google.com.
This type of internet problem usually means your ISP's DNS servers (the computers that your web browser ask where to go to find a website and it gets the numbers from) are either overloaded or not working. Whereas typing in
http://64.233.167.99 tells your browser exactly where to go and it doesn't need to pester the DNS servers.
Posted: Tue 07 Mar, 2006 23.16
by Psythor
But why do the DNS servers resolve a domain via ping, rather than through the browser on the same computer? Surely the process is the same?
"Tell me where google.com is"
"It's at 64.233.167.99"
Only then the browser would say "go to 64.233.167.99"?
Or am I missing something?
Posted: Tue 07 Mar, 2006 23.42
by chinajan
I'm on ntl and have had similar problems tonight.
Hmm, great contribution from Jan, there, then.
Posted: Wed 08 Mar, 2006 07.18
by Charlie Wells
I'm also on NTL and had the same problems last night. Looks like everything is now back to normal now.