cant access google but ONLY from this machine

Wade Smart wadesmart at gmail.com
Tue May 12 22:45:25 UTC 2009


NoOp wrote:
> On 05/12/2009 02:53 PM, Wade Smart wrote:
> ...
>> But I can access it from my laptop and my other machines in the house.
>>
>> I did just reboot and then again dumped the cache on both browsers and 
>> still I cant get access.
>>
>> I pinged www.google.com from my laptop and its fine.
>>  From this computer: 5 packets sent, 0% success.
> 
> Perhaps it's a dns issue. What do you get if you ping 74.125.155.147
> instead?
> 
>> Ok.. what can cause 1 in 4 machines NOT to access a site?
>> Im wired directly to the router, the others are wireless.
>>
>> Wade
>
20090512 1743 GMT-5

Funny as you were posting I was having the same thought.

I successfully reached each of the posted IP's. The thing is - I use 
OpenDNS. So, Im looking into what is wrong. My computer is set to look 
at OpenDNS as are all my computers.

Wade



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