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Can ping ip addresses but not domain names
Greetings all,
New user to the forum. I'm having a problem with internet connectivity. It is random but persistent. After restarting my computer I can sometimes reach all web pages fine. After browsing for a little bit though I get "error server not found" for all sites. Sometimes after a restart I can't get any pages to load and sometimes a few pages will load but not all. Doesn't matter after some period of browsing I get the "server not found" for all sites.
I've been on the phone with Verizon FIOS support for more hours than I care to remember. Here's what I do know from that time though. Once I'm getting the error messages I can ping ip addresses but not domain names. The good folks at Mozilla also helped me discover that if I use the google public DNS everything seems to work fine. I've been online that way for several hours and the problem hasn't come back.
I don't know if I explained this very well but if anyone can help a newb out I'd appreciate it.
Edit: Oops, my thread got moved to this forum and I was unaware of the "include this info with your post". I'll try to get what I can.