Major Internet Outage or is it just me?

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Major Internet Outage or is it just me?

Post by euclid » Sun, 21. Nov 21, 19:56

I cannot get several of the usual sites like reuters, microsoft, outlook to name just a few. I wonder if anyone encounters the same problem?

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Re: Major Internet Outage or is it just me?

Post by Alan Phipps » Sun, 21. Nov 21, 20:10

They seem to be working for me. Have you recently changed any security settings, or perhaps your security software (or browser and/or its settings)?

If anything is getting blocked (as opposed to not being accessible) then there should be a quarantine or blocking report somewhere on your system that says why.
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Re: Major Internet Outage or is it just me?

Post by euclid » Sun, 21. Nov 21, 20:15

Thanks Alan :-) Only change was to switch from wireless to ethernet router connection. Will check the firewall settings (should be the same for either connection though).

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Re: Major Internet Outage or is it just me?

Post by pjknibbs » Sun, 21. Nov 21, 21:12

Check the DNS settings as well--those might be different between the two. For example, I used to have an issue whereby I could use Teamviewer if the machine was attached via a wire, but it would fail via Wi-Fi, because the DNS settings were different and the DNS server used on the Wi-Fi side would return incorrect IP for Teamviewer's servers as a deliberate seccurity measure to protect idiots being told to install the thing by scammers.

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Re: Major Internet Outage or is it just me?

Post by euclid » Sun, 21. Nov 21, 23:35

Thanks for the feedback, Paul. DNS (as IP) are set to be obtained automatically. Also I could (the issue resolved itself) access various websites( like this forum, gmail, hangout chat to mention a few) which I doubt would have been possible if it had been a DNS problem.

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Re: Major Internet Outage or is it just me?

Post by CBJ » Sun, 21. Nov 21, 23:46

No, that's exactly what a DNS problem often looks like; sites that are in your DNS cache work fine but others don't. It's easy enough to confirm whether that's the situation you're in by flushing your DNS cache ("ipconfig /flushdns" at the command prompt). If the sites you could access before are no longer accessible once you've done that, then you can be pretty sure it's a DNS issue.

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Re: Major Internet Outage or is it just me?

Post by euclid » Mon, 22. Nov 21, 13:59

CBJ wrote:
Sun, 21. Nov 21, 23:46
No, that's exactly what a DNS problem often looks like; sites that are in your DNS cache work fine but others don't. It's easy enough to confirm whether that's the situation you're in by flushing your DNS cache ("ipconfig /flushdns" at the command prompt). If the sites you could access before are no longer accessible once you've done that, then you can be pretty sure it's a DNS issue.
Oh, I wasn't aware, thanks for the clarification. Still puzzling that I did not do anything (other then waiting) and the issue resolved itself.

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