Re: are you still using linux? nfm

If installing and running nscd does not clear up your problems, Newport had the correct course of action.

The second course of action is to enter a *new* primary and secondary set of DNS numbers. IP addresses.

One easy way to get one's head around all this is to consider Pythagoras who was purported to say "All things are numbers". True words here. youtube.com for instance equates to a number. DNS is simply a massive telephone book that translates names, to numbers, for your computer.

So, if you know your broadband, or ISP provider, that would be helpful. If you can let us know, I can harvest those numbers for you.

Regardless, once you have those numbers, it is a simple matter of going to some network settings and leaving your network connection set to DHCP, but manually entering them which will override the DNS numbers, which are automagically sent from your provider, to your router, to your computer. We can override those DNS numbers which may be causing you fits, by manually typing them into a simple text file.

It is not a bad idea to know your provider, because ideally you want DNS numbers that are 'close' to you, close in terms of your network. It would make your system respond a tad faster. Tho technically it is not imperative.

If you need to get this far meaning things are still mucked up, just say so and I can show you the simple steps to enter these numbers and hopefully your DNS issues would be over.

Will wait to see if there are further responses in the thread before writing up these instructions.