Web Problem

[BabyBear]

Guys,

Any ideas on this one?

Dell 5100 with wireless broadband working fine on the web and suddenly stops getting certain web pages, giving the Oops link broken message? Most pages, inlcluding Pprune, are fine and a laptop hard wired to the router gets the pages the desktop will not.

Cheers,

BB

[bnt]

Can't give you an exact answer, but I'm leaning to something DNS-related, such as caching of addresses. The "Repair" option on a network connection should clear the cache in the process, or there is the ipconfig /flushdns command. I would need to be there and run various tests before I could say any more.

[Gertrude the Wombat]

Yeah, something like that, also try tracert and ping and stuff like that on the same addresses. Oh, and get a trace of whatever is or isn't going out on the wire (so few people actually try to use WireShark or whatever for these types of problems, and it so often points you in a helpful direction).

The other usual suspect is some sort of web cache, but that's less likely if another machine with the same connection is working fine.