Partial Web Connection?

[MisterWeary]

Hi there,

Last night I was accessing everything I wanted without any problems. I closed all programs and left the computer running overnight (I don't do this very often). This morning I went to use the Internet and it didn't appear to be working. These are the steps I've tried:

• I reboot my computer, still nothing
• I reboot My Siemens 4200 DSL Modem, still nothing
• I rang my provider (Telstra BigPond Aust.)
• We disabled all antivirus and firewall programs and still no change
• I was able to visit a few websites
• - www.bigpond.com.au
• - www.telstra.com.au
• But not others...
• - www.google.com.au
• My email would send/receive without any problem.
• Other web programs such as Magic the Gathering Online and Fulltilt Poker did not work
• I rang Microsoft who reset IE and had no other ideas (without me paying)

I'm kind of at a loss now as to how to fix this? Any help would be appreciated.

[johnwill]

Sounds like your ISP has issues. You can connect to certain websites, but not to others? That sounds like DNS issues.

Try these simple tests.

Start, Run, CMD to open a command prompt:

PING 64.233.161.103

PING www.google.com.au

Right click in the command window and choose Select All, then hit Enter.
Paste the results in a message here.

If you are on a machine with no network connection, use a floppy, USB disk, or a CD-RW disk to transfer a text file with the information to allow pasting it here.

[MisterWeary]

I went home and shut everything down for half an hour...when I booted her back up again and everything was working fine?!?

I didn't check before I shut it all down if it was working so it could have been my ISP, could have been the modem...either way I'm back up and running now...sorry for the hassle :)

[johnwill]

No problem.