Is google down?

[dude1394]

Can't seem to connect to it all day.

[u2sarajevo]

Naw sir.

[dude1394]

Hmmm......This has happened to me before on my home system(router or cable modem). But I think I had it on my work as well today.

A few sites will not come up, others will but some will not. I've had to reboot the dang thing. Anyone familiar with this stuff understand how that could happen? I mean for me google is down, everything else is up.

[u2sarajevo]

Check your hosts file?

Or better yet, go to a command prompt and type "ping google.com" then report the IP address back here in a post...

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by u2sarajevo

Check your hosts file?

Or better yet, go to a command prompt and type "ping google.com" then report the IP address back here in a post...

Can't seem to cut and paste a dos box.
Pinging google.com 64.233.167.99

reply from 64.233.167.99
packets sent = 4, received =4, lost = 0

[chumdawg]

That IP address takes me to Google. Check your HOSTS file. Just run a search by filename. Then look in the file to see if there is anything there that is redirecting you away from the Google page.

U2 helped me with this once before (thanks again, dude!). Now I use it for my own nefarious purposes...

[dude1394]

hosts <what>

[dude1394]

Hosts file contents.

127.0.0.1 localhost

[chumdawg]

Okay, if that's all that's in it, then it's not the hosts file.

What happens when you put 64.233.167.99 into your browser, instead of www.google.com?

[dude1394]

Hmm....I get directly to google. It's up..

I wonder if windoze keeps a local copy of addresses and that could get messed up without a reboot for a while?

[dude1394]

I'm going to see what happens with a reboot (it's the wondoze way don't you know).

[chumdawg]

Originally Posted by dude1394

Hmm....I get directly to google. It's up..

I wonder if windoze keeps a local copy of addresses and that could get messed up without a reboot for a while?

I'm not an expert here, but it sounds to me like a reasonable explanation.

[dude1394]

Well I reset (cycled power) on my router and cable modem, voila.

It's almost like the router gets confused.

[MavsX]

Originally Posted by u2sarajevo

Check your hosts file?

Or better yet, go to a command prompt and type "ping google.com" then report the IP address back here in a post...

LOL the hosts file. haha. There is this guy at work who kept going to all these non approved sites. The easiest way way to block them was to set all the sites he went to the local host. haha

i personally blocked like 50 sites. it felt good, and he has no idea why the sites stopped loading. suckers!

[u2sarajevo]

Originally Posted by MavsX

LOL the hosts file. haha. There is this guy at work who kept going to all these non approved sites. The easiest way way to block them was to set all the sites he went to the local host. haha

i personally blocked like 50 sites. it felt good, and he has no idea why the sites stopped loading. suckers!

Oh dude..... what's funner is if you are the policy controller for the IAS server for your work (like someone all of you guys know that posts on this website). There are some people that have browsing habits that are very suspicious. For fun, if the site is really bad I will just redirect requests for those domains to pbskids.org, or teletubbies.com.

Amazingly the requests for those domains disappear pretty quickly.

[u2sarajevo]

Originally Posted by dude1394

Well I reset (cycled power) on my router and cable modem, voila.

It's almost like the router gets confused.

Is your router a linksys (Cisco)? If not, what manufacturer/model?

[Flacolaco]

That is hilarious. How dumb are people at work? They should know that there is always someone watching. I am very very picky about where I'll go on the internet at work.

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by u2sarajevo

Is your router a linksys (Cisco)? If not, what manufacturer/model?

It is a linksys router. Can't recall the model.

[u2sarajevo]

Originally Posted by dude1394

It is a linksys router. Can't recall the model.

I would try upgrading firmware. If you give me the specific model I'll point you to it. Or you can get it from their website pretty easily (here's a start.... you'll have to find your specific router though)

[dude1394]

Thanks U2.. I have tought about upgrading it's firmware because it used to have an issue with some streaming video.

I wonder if this would help/hurt my vonage service?? Hmm...I think I might have to go ahead and do it.

[ty]

If Google was down, so would the world. =/

[MavsX]

Originally Posted by u2sarajevo

Oh dude..... what's funner is if you are the policy controller for the IAS server for your work (like someone all of you guys know that posts on this website). There are some people that have browsing habits that are very suspicious. For fun, if the site is really bad I will just redirect requests for those domains to pbskids.org, or teletubbies.com.

Amazingly the requests for those domains disappear pretty quickly.

haha, good work dude. One time we were messing with our roomate, and we made all his favorite and most used sites go to one place. meatspin.com i believe that is it. DON't click that link, unless you are murphy

edit: this is meatspin. http://www.urbandictionary.com/defin...term=Meat+Spin

[bernardos70]

That's terrible, but there are way worse ones which I shall not mention here cause they are terrible........ but feel free to PM me :P

Just to not complete derail the conversation, couldn't that problem also happen if you have a DNS problem?

[u2sarajevo]

Originally Posted by bernardos70

That's terrible, but there are way worse ones which I shall not mention here cause they are terrible........ but feel free to PM me :P

Just to not complete derail the conversation, couldn't that problem also happen if you have a DNS problem?

That's why I had him check his hosts file and ping the google name.

Since it cleared when he rebooted, plus the fact that other domains were not affected outside of google (meaning the routers DNS server given by the ISP wasn't down) made it probable that it was a local issue.

He certainly could set static DNS servers but if he used the machine at home and work that would cause a myriad of issues obviously.

[bernardos70]

Since this thread is about to die, I'll go ahead and tack on this question: There are 7 computers here in the office, all connected wirelessly to your run-of-the-mill, standard (no tomato, no DD-WRT) WRT54G. We're using a 64-bit WEP encryption (I know, not idea), and everyone is close to the router, so everyone gets great signal.

But two of the computers (mine included) are very sluggish when searching for an IP, it seems. When I first visit a site, it takes forever to find it, but once it does, it's smooth sailing, unless the domain changes (anything before the .com changing will cause it to stall for quite a few seconds). When I ping, like I just pinged google.com, it takes forever to resolve the IP, but once it does, there's no lag. Now, I've added dallas-mavs.com to the HOSTS file with it's correct IP and all, but that still does not help.

I've tried everything I know that I can remember and I can't fix this. Do you have any idea why this is happening?

[MavsX]

Originally Posted by bernardos70

Since this thread is about to die, I'll go ahead and tack on this question: There are 7 computers here in the office, all connected wirelessly to your run-of-the-mill, standard (no tomato, no DD-WRT) WRT54G. We're using a 64-bit WEP encryption (I know, not idea), and everyone is close to the router, so everyone gets great signal.

But two of the computers (mine included) are very sluggish when searching for an IP, it seems. When I first visit a site, it takes forever to find it, but once it does, it's smooth sailing, unless the domain changes (anything before the .com changing will cause it to stall for quite a few seconds). When I ping, like I just pinged google.com, it takes forever to resolve the IP, but once it does, there's no lag. Now, I've added dallas-mavs.com to the HOSTS file with it's correct IP and all, but that still does not help.

I've tried everything I know that I can remember and I can't fix this. Do you have any idea why this is happening?

Maybe its just the computer. When was the last time it was imaged and reinstalled? Try a different computer in the same spot, or if its a PC card, switch them out.

[dude1394]

Originally Posted by u2sarajevo

That's why I had him check his hosts file and ping the google name.

Since it cleared when he rebooted, plus the fact that other domains were not affected outside of google (meaning the routers DNS server given by the ISP wasn't down) made it probable that it was a local issue.

He certainly could set static DNS servers but if he used the machine at home and work that would cause a myriad of issues obviously.

U2 the reboot I did was the router and cable modem, not the PC. Just in case there is any confusion.

[Kirobaito]

Originally Posted by dude1394

U2 the reboot I did was the router and cable modem, not the PC. Just in case there is any confusion.

Just a few days ago I had the same problem. I couldn't go to Wikipedia on the computer wired to the router or my wireless laptop... that's a serious problem for me, haha, because I spend hours a day on Wikipedia. Any time it happens I just restart the modem and router and it always works fine afterwards.

[u2sarajevo]

I assumed you did both but no matter because it still proved it was a local issue and not a DNS server issue (unless you indeed do run a local DNS server... if you don't know if you do then you don't).