Sole Signal Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 I'm pretty sure this happened after Firefox did an automatic update. I can still log on with AIM and access my FTP site through Filezilla, but trying to browse with Firefox or IE gives me "Firefox/IE can't find the server at ____." I've got all firewalls and virus software off, and I looked through my router settings and nothing looks out of the ordinary. I restarted twice, no dice. I looked through network connections and it says that the connection is good with no problems. I have no idea what's wrong. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Coop Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 It could be a problem with your ISP. I had a similar issue happen with FireFox last year, where I could log on, but I couldn't go anywhere. It was fixed a couple hours later, and the cause was a cable line that had been accidentally damaged elsewhere. Try calling up your ISP, and see if anything's up. That, or try checking any FireFox plug-ins you have to see if a setting got changed (like with No Script). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishy Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 My ISP cut us off a few weeks back. Everything looked normal and online, but it wouldn't let us do anything either. Apparently we were sending spam emails or something. Whatever you say Sky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sole Signal Posted July 3, 2008 Author Share Posted July 3, 2008 It's weird cause' all the other computers in the house can access the internet, all connected to the same router that my desktop is. Mine's the only one that can't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyrion Posted July 3, 2008 Share Posted July 3, 2008 ipconfig /flushdns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sole Signal Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 ipconfig /flushdns Tried it. Did nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phill Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 ping a website and see if that works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sole Signal Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 ping a website and see if that works. It seems to work. 4 packets sent and received, none lost. I guess I'll have to call up the ISP today, although I don't think that's the issue since all the other computers in the house work fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitty Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Check your browser connection settings (for FireFox Tools>Options>Advanced>Network>Settings) and see if it's trying to connect through a proxy. It's probably not that, but worth checking out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phill Posted July 5, 2008 Share Posted July 5, 2008 Take a look at the browsers connection settings as Falchion suggested, being able to ping a site but not browse it shows that the problem is likely with the browser(connection settings) or the data being transferred(ie. filtered or blocked). Also, if you have IE7 you will have a "Diagnose Connection problems" under the tools menu, run that and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sole Signal Posted July 5, 2008 Author Share Posted July 5, 2008 Oooook. So I got frustrated and started up Kaspersky to make sure the firewall was off. It was, still no success. On a whim I turned turned the firewall from inside Kasperky on (first time I've ever touched that setting) and lo and behold, I can now browse again. Whatever, I'm happy. Thanks to all of you who offered suggestions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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