Clicksilver: Had to enable proxy a few days ago?

radiospan

Since early last week, I had been having very bad problems with Clicksilver. The router was connected with no problems, but about 50% of the time I tried to open a website, Firefox couldn't get past the "Looking up www.google.com..." stage. Once it got past this, the page opened grand, and download speeds are always perfect once it gets past that "looking up" stage. (It's called something else in IE I think). I often had to click on links about 10 times before I got the page to load.

Anyway this problem was frustrating me, as nobody else here seemed to be reporting it. I solved the problem yesterday by enabling the proxy settings in Firefox. The proxy I'm using now is 194.46.8.9:8080.

Was anybody else having the same problem with Clicksilver last week? If so, might this be something to do with a possible upgrade to 1MBit?

Also, what exactly is the "Looking up www.google.com..." stage in Firefox? Is it when it's looking up the IP address to connect to from the DNS?

Terra

I've being having does kinda problems for days as well, but I though there was something wrong with my machine.

Is it happening with more programs other then firefox ?

radiospan

It was happening with Internet Explorer too. Seems to be only web based traffic. No problems with eMule or MSN Messenger.

Stark

The problem seems to be with the DNS servers, when the problem happens I can access stuff fine using IP addresses. The reason the proxy is working for you is probably because the browser has taken to resolving hostnames through the proxy server (which you've specified using an IP address).

Nyum Nyum

plazzTT wrote:

Was anybody else having the same problem with Clicksilver last week?

Had this trouble all weekend.

Nietzschean

try some other dns servers, most ones on the web are publically accessable....