# Web site problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 6, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-problems/471506 "2008-11-06T20:05:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-problems/471506/1 "2008-11-06T20:05:24Z")
Is anybody else having problems connecting to a large number of web sites? Google doesn’t even respond for me but some other search engines do. The Straight Dope Message Board is great, but I get no response for many other sites. The sites that respond do it in a short time. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-problems/471506/2 "2008-11-06T20:17:12Z")
As usual, one very common explanation is malware. Many malware programs block access to sites that a person might use to find and download anti-malware software. (Or they redirect but the site redirected to is slow or dead.) Run the usual stuff, Hijackthis, Malwarebytes, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-problems/471506/3 "2008-11-06T20:27:28Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > As usual, one very common explanation is malware. Many malware programs block access to sites that a person might use to find and download anti-malware software. (Or they redirect but the site redirected to is slow or dead.) > > Run the usual stuff, Hijackthis, Malwarebytes, etc. I’m just asking before I spend time fixing what isn’t broke. The easiest solution will be to throw in the backup OS drive from a week ago. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-problems/471506/4 "2008-11-06T20:38:14Z")
Could be that your internet service provider is having some kind of DNS issue. Type 64.233.187.99 into your browser’s address bar and see if that takes you to google - if it does, then it adds weight to the above hypothesis. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-problems/471506/5 "2008-11-06T20:49:01Z")
I had tried a different DNS, but that did no good. The pages are all loading up again after 2 hours and no change on my part. Thanks for the number for Google, as I had considered that the next thing to try. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-problems/471506/6 "2008-11-06T20:50:56Z")
One of the chat sites I go on has this message: Due to an outage on one of the major US internet communications carriers access to our site may be interupted or slow. The outage began around 1:45 PM EST. I don’t know what it means but hmmmmm ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-problems/471506/7 "2008-11-06T21:21:49Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > One of the chat sites I go on has this message: > > Due to an outage on one of the major US internet communications carriers access to our site may be interupted or slow. The outage began around 1:45 PM EST. > > I don’t know what it means but hmmmmm Thanks, that’s what I suspected. This site had 3 places with 100% packet loss. One was in Wisconsin. Now I see another Wisconsin site is degrading. [Internet traffic Report](http://www.internettrafficreport.com/namerica.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-site-problems/471506/8 "2008-11-06T21:35:19Z")
The image server for KOL has not responded for about 3 or 4 days. I’ve had to use a host file to bypass images to play the game. Now it’s back in full glory. Whatever the failure was it was building for a few days.