Shoutbox

It seems all websites owned by CNET do not exist.

Firefox

www.download.com screenshot
www.cnet.com screenshot
www.com.com screenshot
www.news.com screenshot

And I get "The page cannot be displayed" In Internet Explorer

I've had this for ages. Its up and down. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

I think i've posted here before aobut this, but got no solution.
It seems no one else has this problem but me ?
I don't understand it.. ?

Thats Internet Explorer's way of telling you it can't open it because of DNS problems. It happens quite often for me sometimes also, on certain websites. I don't know if this might help, but you can try it. In the command prompt type "ipconfig /flushdns". That will clear your DNS list, and get a new one from your ISP's server. If that doesn't help, get firefox .

Well, if you look carefully, I did say the screenshots are from Firefox..

Thanks for your help, I tried what you said and even after restart, no help.

also check the HOSTS file for entries blocking download.com. are you running a firewall?

can you try pinging download.com? (type "ping www.download.com" in a command prompt) and give the IP address you're getting (between [])

I'm running Windows Firewall only, which is not blocking any websites.
I tried pinging, the command promp came up for about 20 seconds, then disapeared?

Screenshot

Can you connect to http://216.239.115.131

If you can, that means that you have DNS resolving problems...

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Originally posted by chris4
I'm running Windows Firewall only, which is not blocking any websites.
I tried pinging, the command promp came up for about 20 seconds, then disapeared?

Screenshot

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type "cmd" in the run box and then try pinging. typing "ping download.com" in a command prompt is not executing "ping download.com" from the run box.

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Originally posted by Mike
Can you connect to http://216.239.115.131

If you can, that means that you have DNS resolving problems...

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just comes up same thing in firefox:



and "The page cannot be displayed" in internet explorer

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Originally posted by Millenium_edition

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Originally posted by chris4
I'm running Windows Firewall only, which is not blocking any websites.
I tried pinging, the command promp came up for about 20 seconds, then disapeared?

Screenshot

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type "cmd" in the run box and then try pinging. typing "ping download.com" in a command prompt is not executing "ping download.com" from the run box.

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Oops.. sorry, didn't completely read it.

I get this when I type that in cmd...
"Ping Request could not find download.com. Please check the name and try again"

It is all good here ...

Maybe the servers are just down in your area or something...

I want to download stuff

They've always been like that though.........