Annoying Firefox Problem.

slipd · 13 May 2006 at 23:12

Hi guys,

My Dad has this problem on Firefox (Latest version) when he accesses random web pages?

Say if he loads bbc.co.uk and then jumps to ebay.co.uk he gets ‘the server cannot be found’ etc error a quick refresh and its fine, it loads. This is happening quite frequently and on totally random sites and pages?

He’s on UKOnline with a Netgear DG834G.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

SW.

tolien · 13 May 2006 at 23:15

Is it the same with IE?

slipd · 13 May 2006 at 23:18

Hi tolien,

Thanks for the relpy

I don't know about IE, I've tryed to wean him off it

I'll get him to give it a go and see what he reports?

Does it sound like a familiar problem then?

SW.

tolien · 13 May 2006 at 23:24

sam.wheale said:
I don't know about IE, I've tryed to wean him off it

It doesn't matter whether it's IE or anything else, as long as it's a different browser.

Does it sound like a familiar problem then?

Could be lots of things...

slipd · 14 May 2006 at 00:36

I'll get him to try out some different variations of browser and I'll report back

Cheers,

SW.

slipd · 16 May 2006 at 23:30

tolien said:
Is it the same with IE?

It appears to be the same with ALL the browsers he's tried?

IE, Firefox and Opera...

SW.

tolien · 16 May 2006 at 23:33

Try different DNS servers then.

slipd · 16 May 2006 at 23:34

tolien said:
Try different DNS servers then.

Thanks for the reply tolien

Could I use my Pipex servers on his connection - I've never had any problems with mine?

Cheers,

SW.

tolien · 16 May 2006 at 23:48

It's worth a try. I'd normally suggest Zen's and Plusnet's, but it would appear they changed their setup to only allow recursive queries from within their own networks.

slipd · 16 May 2006 at 23:50

Failing the use of mine, are there any free ones out there that i could try?

SW.

tolien · 16 May 2006 at 23:54

There's 194.72.9.34, 194.74.65.68, 194.74.65.69 (ns5,ns6,ns7.bt.net, work from here) for a start.

sven256 · 16 May 2006 at 23:59

happening to loads me included

its a known issue no eta on being fixed.

quick edit its not your browser its ukonline.

crashuk · 17 May 2006 at 00:04

if you have problem with dns try TreeWalk i think its called that.

Wossi · 17 May 2006 at 10:02

I have the same problem at work, doens't matter which browser I try, Opera, Firefox or IE. It's only my pc aswell, the other pc's in the office are fine. I'm blaming it on Netscaliber being a useless bunch of ********