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Old 07-03-2014, 01:11 AM
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Well, hell. I'm suddenly unable to connect to certain sites on one laptop but not the other. When I run network troubleshooting it says "your dns server may be unavailable." I tried resetting dns cache and IP, but no joy. When I was following the instructions to reset those, I also got a message that "no operations can be performed while media is disconnected." I think I fixed that, but still can't connect to specific sites.

I'm on the "bad" laptop now and can get here, obviously. I can google and the results list will display but I can't click into any of the sites. An example of a bookmarked page that won't display is publix.com

I can get to google and gmail, for example. I also tried restoring the computer but that didn't help.

Seems to be independent of browser -- same problem on chrome, firefox, and IE.