google not working on my computers

[OkeeDon]

Everything else seems to be working, which leads me to believe that it is some sort of browser hijack that is preventing me from getting to google.com. On the other hand, it's happening on both of my computers, the desktop and the laptop, so if it's some sort of worm or virus, it's malicious enough to travel over my network. I haven't tried my wife's notebook, yet.

It's really acting like the google site is down, however. Anyone else having problems?

 

[LarryRB]

must be something with your machines as I just typed in google and it came right up, no problem

 

[ronjhall]

Don
No problems with Goggle. Try Yahoo.
Do you have Security set at a high level?

 

[MikePA]

What error message are you getting?

 

[OkeeDon]

DNS, Cannot find server. Doesn't matter if I use the google toolbar or try to go to google.com. Yahoo and other searches work from the IE search button but Google is not offered as an alternative -- guess they didn't bribe MS enough.

 

[OkeeDon]

Well, maybe it really was down somewhere. They may have mirror sites or something, At any rate, it's working again, and I didn't do anything.

 

[frank_f15]

DON'T YOU JUST LOVE COMPUTERS? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Glad its working for you now.

 

[texbaylea]

Don
Whatever Domain Name Server your ISP goes to was apparently down or not updated properly. I see the same error from time to time but it is usually corrected within a few hours unless there has been a hugh denial of srevice attack somewhere.

Vernon

 

[DocHeb]

Haven't had problems with Google, but for me eBay has been virtually inaccessible over the past four days - Cannot find server errors.

 

[CTyler]

The way to get around that is to just type in the IP address of the site. Then you bypass the DNS server. All the DNS server does is translate the "Name" into an "Address", just like a telephone book.