internet sites down or not responding

letsbehonest

Today 26 march I have not been able to access sites such as Amazon, Ebay, Curry's ,National lottery, and other major sites, MSE, UKhotdeals, are ok, I don't think it is me or my equipment. Has any one else experienced this,
Yes I have checked firewalls.

Jakg

DNS issue most likely - try Google's DNS or OpenDNS

m5rcc

Are you on modem or router? If router, trying unplugging it for a while and restarting it....

letsbehonest

I am using a netgear router,I have tried unplugging and restarting no joy there.
I have also tried the other DNS suggestion and like my orig post same thing "server not found"

OneADay

Cleared your cache, tried different browsers?

Oscar_The_Grouch

Have you tried a system reboot? Have you tried to get on using something like Firefox or Opera?

TimothyEBaldwin

Have you tried ping and traceroute?

Try the following commands at the command prompt:

ping www.hotukdeals.com
ping 80.64.63.70
tracert 80.64.63.70
route print

Hopefully the output will provide some clues - post it here.

letsbehonest

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Brian harrison>tracert 80.64.63.70

Tracing route to hukdlbwb01.hotukdeals.com [80.64.63.70]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms lo0-central2.thn-ag1.plus.net [195.166.128.227]

3 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms 84.92.6.104
4 60 ms 223 ms 227 ms te3-2.ptn-gw01.plus.net [212.159.1.53]
5 26 ms 26 ms 25 ms te3-1.ptn-gw02.plus.net [212.159.1.110]
6 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms ge-0-2-0-0.lonth-inter-2.interoute.net [195.66.2
26.53]
7 26 ms 25 ms 26 ms 89.202.131.194
8 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms 80.64.48.70.controlcircle.com [80.64.48.70]
9 27 ms 27 ms 26 ms hukdlbwb01.hotukdeals.com [80.64.63.70]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings\Brian harrison>

fiddiwebb

Have you run a scan with Malwarebytes?

If not download the latest version of Malwarebytes from filehippo.com, when downloaded open Malwarebytes and update it before running a scan.
If Malwarebytes finds anything delete what it finds and then post the log file here.

kwikbreaks

Try the same with one of the sites you said you couldn't access

murph71

Also, you could try this...

Have a look at your "hosts" file which, as you are on XP, is at the following location:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\

Right click on the hosts file and open with notepad. You should just have one entry at the bottom which is...

127.0.0.1 localhost

All the entries which have a hash at the start of each line are comments. You only need to worry about the actual uncommented entries. If you have any other websites listed against IP 127.0.0.1 then any attempt to reach them through a browser will fail as that IP is a loopback address. Some "malware" etc. infect your hosts file and you can delete the offending entries and just click "save" in notepad - LEAVE the localhost...

It may not be this but is worth a look as it takes only a quick minute to rule this out... If this file has been "infected", delete the offending entries then you'll have to sort out the cause...