Connection query

Recently, under both Firefox and IE 6, I have been having trouble
connecting. About one time in three, I get "Cannot find server" or
something similar. When I click, sometimes double, on "try again" it
eventually (sometimes) connects. Is this more likely to be something at my
end of things or the ISP (Virgin Net)?

Regards

Pat Macguire

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>, P & H Macguire
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>Recently, under both Firefox and IE 6, I have been having trouble
>connecting. About one time in three, I get "Cannot find server" or
>something similar. When I click, sometimes double, on "try again" it
>eventually (sometimes) connects. Is this more likely to be something at my
>end of things or the ISP (Virgin Net)?
>
>Regards
>
>Pat Macguire
>
>
Could be your machine has cached failed DNS attempts.

Try flushing the local DNS cache.

(Type ipconfig/flushdns at a command prompt)

A quick Google on "Windows cache Failed DNS lookups" will get you
chapter and verse - and a lot more you really don't want to know!!
--
Peter R Cook

P & H Macguire wrote:

> Recently, under both Firefox and IE 6, I have been having trouble
> connecting. About one time in three, I get "Cannot find server" or
> something similar. When I click, sometimes double, on "try again" it
> eventually (sometimes) connects. Is this more likely to be something at my
> end of things or the ISP (Virgin Net)?

Seeing as it's Virgin I expect it's definitetly them.

It's nothing to do with the browser btw.

Graham

I used to get the same. Its their flaky DNS servers. Used OpenDns
(www.opendns.com) and solved the problem.

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>I used to get the same. Its their flaky DNS servers. Used OpenDns
> (www.opendns.com) and solved the problem.
>

Just trying this and, don't want to talk too soon, but it seems to be
working!

Thanks everyone.

regards

Pat Macguire

"P & H Macguire" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>I used to get the same. Its their flaky DNS servers. Used OpenDns
>> (www.opendns.com) and solved the problem.
>>
>
> Just trying this and, don't want to talk too soon, but it seems to be
> working!

Good to hear it, if you still have problems check out this link.
http://www.techworld.com/security/ne...gtype=samechan
I dont know if this has anything to do with your system, but its worth
looking at.

harry