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Internet Browsers Give Up
Asiina
...WaterlooRegistered User regular
...WaterlooRegistered User regular
I have a hard time describing this problem, which makes my googling skills almost useless.
Sometimes, for no reason at all, my internet browsers will give up trying to connect. Both IE, firefox, and even steam's browser will just not go to any websites. The strange thing is, they won't even try. I'll refresh or press the Try Again button, and it'll instantly go to the "failed to connect" error without making an attempt to connect, like what usually happens when I've lost my internet connection. There is no delay at all.
However, this only happens with browsers. Any IM programs (like steam) or online games or torrents will continue to run fine or even start okay after this problem happens.
The only way I've found to solve it is to reboot completely, which is kind of a pain. Any ideas what is going on or at least a better way to describe it for google?
Sometimes, for no reason at all, my internet browsers will give up trying to connect. Both IE, firefox, and even steam's browser will just not go to any websites. The strange thing is, they won't even try. I'll refresh or press the Try Again button, and it'll instantly go to the "failed to connect" error without making an attempt to connect, like what usually happens when I've lost my internet connection. There is no delay at all.
However, this only happens with browsers. Any IM programs (like steam) or online games or torrents will continue to run fine or even start okay after this problem happens.
The only way I've found to solve it is to reboot completely, which is kind of a pain. Any ideas what is going on or at least a better way to describe it for google?
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bring up a command window and type "ipconfig /flushdns" without the quotation marks.
i get this at work a lot.
I still had to restart my computer to get it back.
Any other ideas?