I have a very strange problem on my computer.
This morning, I can no longer connect to google.com from one of my computers. No other computers on my home network have a problem-I run Macs, Windows and Linux.
I don’t have a problem connecting to any other site on my “problem” computer.
I can’t connect to google from either Firefox or Safari (my main computer is a Mac). I am sure it is a corrupted config file somewhere, but why that would effect both browsers but only block one specific site, I have no idea.
Has anyone else seen this problem?
I implemented the best high-tech fix available-I rebooted. No change.
I had a similar problem last week. Both my wife and I could not connect. I unplugged my network and plugged it back in. This solved the problem. During this time, all other websites were working fine, but Google did not work on any browser. All I got was the perpetual wait until “could not connect to server” or something like that.
You aren’t a Comcast cable internet user by any chance?
I experienced this sometimes when I had Comcast in Atlanta. I think it was related to their DNS servers, I recall being able to get to Google when this happened by using the IP address (retrieved by a “ping www.google.com” statement when it was working), instead of typing in “www.google.com”.
One of my friends, who also used Comcast, experienced this issue as well.