Blocked websites?

Barman58
You are a genius! I reset my router and I can access all my sites again.
You have restored what little sanity I have left.

Mark

Barman58: Perhaps you can help explain a problem I had for the first time yesterday, but solved it with a combination of a router and 16-port-switch power-off reset (and coincidentally waiting to see if the lost websites came back a few hours later). Very strangely these 4 websites would not come up via my normal Covad T1 connection on any networked computer: microsoft.com, hotmail.com, msn.com, and Windows Update (url hidden by the app). Not even on the pc that overides the router's DNS choices with its own. They came up fine on a computer when it was using Sprint instead of the network. All other websites worked via the network but I couldn't remember any other Microsoft domain names to try. All that a ping test would tell me is that they have different ip addresses from each other since none of them were (or are now) responding to pings.

Barman58 said:

Primary 208.67.222.222
Secondary 208.67.220.220

Open DNS has the annoying habit of redirecting bad domains when in fact you should just get a "page not found" message. But it would be a useful test just for the purpose of trying different dns servers, as you suggest.

WindowsStar said:

You can fix that by login in and turning off that setting.

Thanks, i didn't know that. Speaking of changing DNS servers, GRC has a tiny app that tests numerous public servers to help you decide which ones to use: GRC's*|*DNS Nameserver Performance Benchmark**