Question:
"The DNS server isn't responding."?
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2013-03-20 07:45:47 UTC
I came home today and booted my PC, i noticed the little yellow triangle over my internet icon thingy, i started chrome and as i thought the internet wasnt working.

So i went and rebooted my modem and router. When it had restarted it still wasnt working so i tried troubleshooting with "windows network troubleshooter" or something. It said the following "The DNS server isn't responding*.

I've tried on mulitiple computers and devices and neither work.

Please help as i'm getting kind of desperate.
Four answers:
2013-03-20 08:04:31 UTC
From GRC, https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm

"People use alphabetic domain names (www.grc.com), but Internet data packets require numerical Internet IP addresses (4.79.142.202). So the first step required before anything can be done on the Internet is to lookup the site's or service's domain name to determine its associated Internet IP address.

Since nothing can happen until IP addresses are known, the use of slow, overloaded or unreliable DNS servers will get in the way, noticeably slowing down virtually all of your use of the Internet.



Unless you have taken over manual control of the DNS servers your system is using (which, as you'll see, is not difficult to do), your system will be using the DNS servers that were automatically assigned by your Internet connection provider (your ISP). Since they are likely located close to you on the Internet (since they are provided by your own ISP) they may already be the fastest DNS servers available to you. But they might be in the wrong order (the second one being faster than the first one, and that matters) or, who knows? Many people have discovered that their own ISP's DNS servers are slower than other publicly available alternatives on the Internet, which are faster and/or more reliable."



Test your available DNS servers and see if there isn't something better that the iSP's default ones:

https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm



"How-to" included there also.
Robert Richardson
2013-03-20 14:51:23 UTC
COMMENT



DNS: A Simple Explanation:



DNS means Domain Name System or most say Domain Name Server.



that's SAD that you don't **** understand what a DNS is, without dns you would have no internet, like the problem you have now, when you type or click a link that says "google.com" how do you thank your pc gets the page.



the internet knows google.com as an IP address not as a name,

your pc gos out and ask a DNS server for the IP address of google.com, your pc received that ip address and then gos to http://74.125.224.72/



it's best to set your own DNS on the router and/or your pc, so if your isp's DNS gos down you can still reach sites on the internet.



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did you try ading a new DNS server?



Regular Best Free Public DNS Servers

Providers



Google

8.8.8.8

8.8.4.4



OpenDNS

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220



Level3

209.244.0.3

209.244.0.4



DNS Advantage

156.154.70.1

156.154.71.1



Verizon

4.2.2.1

4.2.2.2



SmartViper

208.76.50.50

208.76.51.51



OpenNIC

Check links left for best DNS IP close to you

http://www.opennicproject.org/nearest-servers/



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Norton ConnectSafe 1

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198.153.194.40

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198.153.192.50

198.153.194.50

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Norton ConnectSafe 3

198.153.192.60

198.153.194.60 Same to 2 plus blocking non-family friendly web sites



Comodo Secure DNS

8.26.56.26

8.20.247.20

Auto blocking phishing, malware and spyware web sites



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184.169.143.224

184.169.161.155

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ScrubIT

67.138.54.100

207.225.209.66

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Jerad
2013-03-20 14:51:38 UTC
If you go into your network settings a view the IPv4 properties of your adapter, you can manually set the DNS to a free DNS service (Google: 8.8.8.8). A simple Google search can show you how to do this as well. You might also call your ISP to see if there is anything wrong on their end.
?
2013-03-20 14:53:33 UTC
Sometimes you just have to wait a little, maybe your ISP is having some issues at the moment.


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