odd disconnection

I just had a very odd disconnection: I could still send and receive
email, and do a ping, but suddenly web pages weren't getting through.
I'd been connected about 5 or 6 days, I think. Three browsers - Firefox,
Chrome, and IE. No error message or anything - just the connect symbols
kept going round for ever.

On an adjacent computer, connected to the world via the same router,
Firefox worked fine.

Restarting this PC restored normal operation. (One slight surprise - my
news and email client, Turnpike, popped up a couple of popups saying it
wasn't my default mail and news client, did I want it to be. It had
been, for many years and through two computer changes!)
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

I long for the commercialised Christmas of the 1970s. It's got so religious
now, it's lost its true meaning. - Mike [{at}ostic.demon.co.uk], 2003-12-24

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message
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I just had a very odd disconnection: I could still send and receive email,
and do a ping, but suddenly web pages weren't getting through. I'd been
connected about 5 or 6 days, I think. Three browsers - Firefox, Chrome, and
IE. No error message or anything - just the connect symbols kept going
round for ever.

On an adjacent computer, connected to the world via the same router,
Firefox worked fine.

Restarting this PC restored normal operation. (One slight surprise - my
news and email client, Turnpike, popped up a couple of popups saying it
wasn't my default mail and news client, did I want it to be. It had been,
for many years and through two computer changes!)


John,

Had a similar occurrence today while testing a new firewall and some remote
video. If you by chance use a DNS server like UKFast or any associated with
DynDNS, it appears they had a bit of an intermittent problem today for about
30 min. I could access clients network using IP address but not when I used
the "friendly name" used by the DNS host. I was busy doing other things so
I didn't dig any further since everything came back shortly after
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Bob S.

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John,

Had a similar occurrence today while testing a new firewall and some
remote video. If you by chance use a DNS server like UKFast or any
associated with DynDNS, it appears they had a bit of an intermittent
problem today for about 30 min. I could access clients network using
IP address but not when I used the "friendly name" used by the DNS
host. I was busy doing other things so I didn't dig any further since
everything came back shortly after

Ah, that's plausible. My continuing to be able to send and receive
emails and news posts could have been because my client, or possibly
some other part of the computer, or the router, had cached the numeric
address of the news and mail servers. The ping is slightly odd, but I
used www.bbc.co.uk, which was in the ping buffer of my client, so that
might have been cached somewhere too.

Although at least some of the pages I wasn't getting through to with the
browsers were ones I'd accessed not long before - and the other PC's
browser continued to work. (Not sure if I tried going to any _new_ pages
with it, though.) And it seems rather a coincidence that I just decided
to restart the computer at the time things got better, if I did!

Ah well - all is back working now (and has been since the restart). Just
putting it down to experience.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Everyone learns from science. It all depends how you use the knowledge. - "Gil
Grissom" (CSI).

In message , "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
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Restarting this PC restored normal operation.

A good general principle to follow
--
Andy Taylor [Editor & Treasurer, Austrian Philatelic Society].
Visit www dot austrianphilately dot com

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In message , "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
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Restarting this PC restored normal operation.

A good general principle to follow

So we got to the end of the runway and paused..... the captain announced
that there was a problem and was returning to the apron.

Short further pause and then normal take off. Once wheels up and
climbing, he announced that *switching off and back on* had fixed the
problem!

--
Tim Lamb

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In message , Andy
writes
In message , "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote
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Restarting this PC restored normal operation.

A good general principle to follow

So we got to the end of the runway and paused..... the captain
announced that there was a problem and was returning to the apron.

Short further pause and then normal take off. Once wheels up and
climbing, he announced that *switching off and back on* had fixed the
problem!

Perhaps they were still on XP.
--
bert