Error 105 Unable to resolve server's DNS address ??

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<p>Having issues getting online and switching websites. Computer indicates I am connected to internet, provider says I am connected but I can’t get online. Have this issue with both Chrome and IE. Seems to be an intermittent problem…I am on now! Thank heavens! Any clues on how to resolve this? This just started happening on Wednesday. Thanks!</p>

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<p>NMINN:</p>

<p>Unless you have changed something, it is probably an issue with your internet provider. When you type an internet address, your computer looks up that address on your internet provider’s DNS server to find the numerical routing address for that name, so it can find the website. If something is blocking your access to the DNS servers, you can’t connect.</p>

<p>I went through a crazy one some years back where somebody on the local Comcast network had mistakenly configured a private server to grab all DNS requests from the entire network! It took several weeks of many people going back and forth with Comcast techs to figure that one out and put in place blocks to keep that from happening.</p>

<p>There are other times when your internet provider may be having DNS server troubles, like a major crash that wipes out a bunch of their DNS capacities. There are some things you could try, but – if you haven’t changed anything on your end and if it’s intermittent, I would give it a few days before I started making changes that may end up just digging a deeper hole without resolving the problem.</p>

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<p>I haven’t changed a thing but am worried that it was from an automatic update. Is that possible??? Even my font size on sites has changed and I definitely didn’t do that! I did work with my provider yesterday and the help guy said it was not on their end…according to them it never is! Will call them again if it doesn’t resolve quickly.</p>

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<p>Some things to try:</p>

<p>1) open a cmd window and type</p>

<p>ipconfig /flushdns</p>

<p>See if that helps.</p>

<p>2) Open a cmd window and type</p>

<p>ipconfig /all</p>

<p>Find the DNS servers in the list and verify they are what your ISP says they should by. Try pinging them.</p>

<p>3) Change your DNS servers to google’s public DNS servers - 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4</p>

<p>(On XP: My Network Places > Right-click Local Area Connection > Select Properties s > Select Internet Protocol > Click Properties > Use the following DNS server addresses > Enter the above DNS’s > Click OK.)</p>

<p>See if that helps.</p>