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Re: Can't connect to Web

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On 28/5/2017 18:53, Steve Hayes wrote:

> On Sun, 28 May 2017 17:16:01 +0000 (UTC), Stef <not@this.address.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Google's web site is hardly ever down.  It's a good place to test if
>>your DNS is down using its IP addresses. You may get some kind of
>>error notice, but as long the number IP address you entered is replaced
>>with a URL with "google" in it, it's working even if typing in
>>www.google.com doesn't.
>>
>>pinging both the domain name of a site and its IP address will test the
>>DNS, too.
>
> Having read the replies to your post, I think the DNS thing is
> unlikely, but last week Google appeared to be down quite a bit, but
> only in some places. I had to resort to Bing for searches, and was
> quite surprised at how quickly it appeared, much faster than Google,
> probably because it has less traffic. Sites that connect to Google
> were also much slower to load -- they seemed to hang until the Google
> connection timed out. 

Perhaps, the problem is something other than DNS, but since "it" failed,
it's a good place to start.

Google is a huge, busy site and I'm sure gets lots of DoS attacks, but
it's up the vast majority of the time and good to test if DNS is down or
it's something else.  I used to use Yahoo, but it's regularly slow
responding and times out or I get tired of waiting.  At least where I am
-- Southwestern US.

I've abandoned Google for searches and now use duckduckgo.com.  Fast,
seems up all the time and doesn't profile searchers.  I don't and NEVER
will use Bing:  Part of my many personal protests against Microsoft and
its business practices.  I only use Windows when I have no other
choices.

Stef

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Can't connect to Web Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-05-26 10:04 +0200
  Re: Can't connect to Web rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-26 04:47 -0400
    Re: Can't connect to Web Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-05-28 06:21 +0200
      Re: Can't connect to Web VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-05-27 23:33 -0500
      Re: Can't connect to Web rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-28 01:24 -0400
        Re: Can't connect to Web Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2017-05-28 02:17 -0400
          Re: Can't connect to Web rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-28 03:18 -0400
            Re: Can't connect to Web VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-05-28 05:31 -0500
  Re: Can't connect to Web VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-05-26 13:39 -0500
  Re: Can't connect to Web Stef <not@this.address.com> - 2017-05-28 17:16 +0000
    Re: Can't connect to Web Bert <bert@iphouse.com> - 2017-05-28 17:48 +0000
      Re: Can't connect to Web Stef <not@this.address.com> - 2017-05-29 19:05 +0000
        Re: Can't connect to Web Bert <bert@iphouse.com> - 2017-05-31 17:51 +0000
          Re: Can't connect to Web Stef <not@this.address.com> - 2017-05-31 23:03 +0000
          Re: Can't connect to Web Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2017-06-13 15:10 -0500
    Re: Can't connect to Web VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-05-28 15:11 -0500
      Re: Can't connect to Web rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2017-05-29 00:20 -0400
      Re: Can't connect to Web Stef <not@this.address.com> - 2017-05-29 18:57 +0000
    Re: Can't connect to Web Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-05-29 03:53 +0200
      Re: Can't connect to Web Stef <not@this.address.com> - 2017-05-29 16:27 +0000
      Re: Can't connect to Web VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2017-05-31 15:41 -0500
        Re: Can't connect to Web Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-06-01 08:52 +0200
          Re: Can't connect to Web Rene Lamontagne <rlamont@shaw.ca> - 2017-06-20 20:50 -0500

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