google not working on my computers

Gatorboy · Oct 20, 2004

<font color="blue"> The way to get around that is to just type in the IP address of the site. </font>

For example: Google.com is http://216.239.41.99

Not sure the easiest way to determine a site's IP address, but I go to the Start Menu and select Run... then I type in cmd into the dialog box, which brings up the DOS command window.

From the DOS prompt just type in PING nameOfWebsite.com (e.g. ping google.com)

You will see the Reply from IP address. That is the actual address of the website.

Another thing to try when a site seems to be down is to run (also from the DOS prompt):

TRACERT nameOfWebsite.com

This will show you all the hops between you and the site's server. Usually when you can't get to a site, one of the hop's times out -- and that is where the problem lies. That's why some people can get access to websites when you can't -- because their route to the website is differernt from yours.

OkeeDon · Oct 20, 2004

Thanks, Dave. It worked for a while last night, then quit again. It's not working this morning. Moreover, when I searched using Yahoo or any other search engine, then tried to link to the resulting sites from the search, my computer almost froze up, and IE reported malfunctions and quit.

I can still get to several sites, like TBN, that I use regularly, and to any site other than Google that I type in directly rather than link from a search engine.

I used the direct link in your message to Google, got into it cleanly, and was able to link out of it to any site. So, that proves that something is messing up either in my ISP's name server or in my computer. The fact that it comes and goes sems to indicate that my ISP (adelphia.net broadband cable) is having problems with it's name servers.