It then dawned on me that I could view the Google Cache of those pages and, while the pages probably wouldn't look pretty, that would hopefully allow me to get the info I needed. There were quite a few hits but, of course, I couldn’t see any of them since those sites weren’t in my existing DNS cache (d’oh!). I then tried searching for “alternate DNS servers”. Then, on a hunch, I tried loading Google and I was actually able to make it there (since I suppose its ip address was one of those in my cache). ![]() That would explain why I couldn't browse anywhere but my most common Internet apps still held up - those ip addresses were cached by my OS.Īt that point, I ran “ipconfig /all” and then pinged the DNS servers to which I was assigned. Then it hit me: my DNS had probably gone wonky. ![]() (You thought I might load IE for that? Not if I can help it ).) Sure enough, FileZilla couldn't connect anywhere either. I wondered for a moment whether Firefox was acting up and so I tried loading an ftp client to test my connection. I then noticed a curiosity - my IM client was still online. ![]() Comcast hasn’t been incredibly reliable for me - they tend to go down every couple months - and I just chalked this up to their usual ineptness. ![]() And, what would often help in the past would be to reboot my cable modem so, I tried that about three or four times (and, really, I should have caught on after the second time). The other day, my Internet connection went down - well, I didn’t see it go down but, when I got back from work that day, I couldn't browse anywhere.
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