From: faeychild@noname.afraid.org   
      
   Jim Beard wrote:   
      
   > On 10/12/2013 07:27 PM, faeychild wrote:   
   >> faeychild wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Bit Twister wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> Easy test is to use some public name servers. here are a few I keep   
   >>>> around. $ urls open public serv   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>> public opendns servers  208.67.222.222  208.67.220.220   
   >>> I tried this one,  no change. The problem remains.   
   >>>   
   >>> I thought DNS too. Bits, but it only selects two sites to ignore and no   
   >>> one else seems to have the problem. Nothing is mentioned on the local   
   >>> forums.   
   >>>   
   >>> Very mysterious   
   >>   
   >>   Maybe not a DNS issue after all Bits, I can ping both sites, only the   
   >> browsers return an error... including lynx   
   >   
   > Those are dns servers, not html servers (apache, whatever).  Try   
   > to access them with a browser and you will get a "connection   
   > could not be established" error message.   
    I understand that Jim   
   >   
   > Put them in /etc/resolv.conf so it looks like below, for   
   > temporary use. For a permanent change (that persists through a   
   > reboot or restart of network) you must put them in   
   > /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base.   
   >   
   > # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by   
   > resolvconf(8)   
   > #     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE   
   > OVERWRITTEN   
   > nameserver 208.67.222.222   
   > nameserver 208.67.222.220   
      
   I did put the DNS numbers in resolv.conf temporarily. It made no change to   
   the problem,   
      
   Only two web sites return errors, one of them being google.   
   They both used to work fine a few days ago although google was getting a bit   
   slow to come up   
      
   If all  websites but two are reachable then it is a very selective DNS   
   fault.   
    As I said I can ping google and the TV guide sites but then as you said,   
   that is not the web server responding.   
      
   It is no different from the sites actually being down, but if that was the   
   case there would be many complaints.   
   >   
   > Cheers!   
   >   
   > jim b.   
   >   
   >   
      
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