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I have a few web sites that I can't get to from home, like... www.cnet.com,
www.download.com, and some pages of www.asus.com. All other sites, and
connectivity seems to be just fine. The error I get is a DNS error. I
contact my ISP, Comcast Cable, and they suggest removing my router, and
cycling my Cable Modem. Sure enough, when I hook the cable out of the modem
directly to the pc, I can get to these sites without a problem. As soon as I
set the router back up, it fails to work again. It wasn't always like this,
but I can't be certain when it started.

Router D-Link DI-704
Win XP Home
Cable ISP

any thoughts?

--mike

Mbt6, the vegetative, villainous jolthead, and quilt weaver, cowered:

> I have a few web sites that I can't get to from home, like...
> www.cnet.com, www.download.com, and some pages of www.asus.com. All
> other sites, and connectivity seems to be just fine. The error I get
> is a DNS error. I contact my ISP, Comcast Cable, and they suggest
> removing my router, and cycling my Cable Modem. Sure enough, when I
> hook the cable out of the modem directly to the pc, I can get to
> these sites without a problem. As soon as I set the router back up,
> it fails to work again. It wasn't always like this, but I can't be
> certain when it started.

Checking that the router is using the correct DNS server is always a good
start. If that's in order, set it tou se one of the myriads of public DNS
servers as a secondary. And if that doesn't work, set it to use the public
DNS server as the primary.

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You groaning, mucoidal, smelly arseface.