Help - google.com not accessible

Golden Ape · 4 Mar 2006 at 15:59

Hi, I've got a really wierd problem and I'm hoping someone can help. I can't access any google web pages (i.e. google.co.uk, google.com etc). I can reach every other page I've tried and this problem exists in both IE and Firefox. Plus I can reach google quite happily from another computer on the same network. Basically it looks like it's something wrong with this machine. Now I'm guessing that this has something to do with the fact that I've just removed google desktop search - the problem started at the same time. So what do I do? I've tried everything I can think of: restarting, checking the LMHOST files etc etc. I would google for an answer but ...

Please, someone help me out of this catch 22 situation!

edit: I'm running XP and Kerio as a firewall, though the problem doesn't go away if I turn the latter off.
edit again: Clearing cache,cookies etc seems to have no effect either

Golden Ape · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:23

Well that's really wierd. It's started working again. Seems that a combination of clearing out the cache and restarting the machine put everything right.

kitfit1 · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:39

Your not on F2S LLU are you, lots of peep's having problems today getting on all sorts of sites.

Golden Ape · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:44

No I'm a PlusNet person and I don't think that was causing the issue ... Thanks for the response though.

Unluckyalf · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:47

Golden Ape, im on Plusnet too and Google.* has been down for me for an hour or so
Obviously some kind of networky issue and not related to your pc

TriedandTested · 4 Mar 2006 at 16:54

It is to do with PlusNet..read it elsewhere today.

tolien · 4 Mar 2006 at 22:26

Tried&Tested said:
It is to do with PlusNet..read it elsewhere today.

Nope. Transatlantic link issue (Abovenet) from the looks of things.

quadboi · 4 Mar 2006 at 23:22

MINE has been off and on today aswell... dont worry... fixed now at the moment

Fireburst · 4 Mar 2006 at 23:48

I had problems too (on BT) but ok now.

Muban · 5 Mar 2006 at 09:53

I have been having problems with some pages but been ok with others.

Plusnet said:
DNS lookups - Update
Our engineers have identified that the issue with DNS lookups is external to our network, and there are reports from other ISPs in the UK of similar issues occuring. We believe that this is down to DNS Propagation issues elsewhere on the internet.

As such this isn't something that we can resolve internally, though we will post a further update once more information is available.

Bah should have looked there first before spending ages trying to find a non existant virus or adware

Jokester · 5 Mar 2006 at 09:54

Yeah, half the internet is down for me this morning.

Jokester

Simmy · 5 Mar 2006 at 10:32

Having trouble with plusnet here aswell. DNS can't seem to find half the site I try and access.