Server Not Found

[Drache]

Ok I can't understand it, I have three webpages in my favorites that won't load. I have tried everything, straight my from my favorites/bookmarks (Firefox & IE), without the www, and even tried going to them through a search engine. Now before someone asks, these webpages worked just this morning before I went to town, and the pages are still working because my friends can access them while I still cannot.

No viruses, no spyware, no adware. I ran CCleaner to clean everything. Im running Vista...

[RD]

do a reboot

[Drache]

do a reboot

Lol first thing done. Ok the three computers in this house cant open the webpages, yet my friends computers can. 

[Drache]

I used a program called wdnslookup and it says that the websites have DNS Server Failure. Anyone know how I can fix this?

[alenglish]

are they using the same  internet  service    DNS server is at  you  internet provider  and it changes  words in IP"S

normal setting  is   automatic  but your provider might give you a set  DNS  IP   Al

[Drache]

are they using the same  internet  service    DNS server is at  you  internet provider  and it changes  words in IP"S

normal setting  is   automatic  but your provider might give you a set  DNS  IP   Al

No idea what you just said but the websites all started working for me again.... 

[Troy]

DNS is what converts "human readable" names into internet addresses so your computer knows how to reach the server that the web site is on. It basically works like a giant phone book that gets continuous updates. Your computer stores some names locally but generally will have to look the addresses up from whoever owns the name. Your ISP may (should) also provide a DNS service but if the information isn't there it has to keep passing the request up the chain. It is likely that your computers made a request and your ISP's DNS servers had lost the information and, for whatever reason, wasn't able to get it for you. Windows also has a bad habit of caching these "not found" addresses so even if the DNS gets fixed your computer may do a local lookup and tell you that it can't figure out the name. You can tell when this happens by how fast it goes (it will take a few seconds for the lookup to fail but you'll get the message instantly if it was a local lookup).

Troy

[alenglish]

thats what   I said  Troy.....             Thx  Al                       

[sunfire69]

Go to

Tools
       Internet options
                             Temp Internet files
                                                     Delete all cookies
then under the same heading of "temp internet files" delete all the Temp files both of these sometimes become corrept and will cause this...plus it won't hurt anything even if it doesn't work...

[Drache]

Go to

Tools
       Internet options
                             Temp Internet files
                                                     Delete all cookies
then under the same heading of "temp internet files" delete all the Temp files both of these sometimes become corrept and will cause this...plus it won't hurt anything even if it doesn't work...

Thats why CCleaner does plus much much more.