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Why can't my Browser resolve host, but ping and nslookup can?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 202662000 views
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I'm a bit stumped by this problem. My machine can ping google.com and www.google.com successfully. I get correct ips like 74.125.. When I try to go to google in Firefox or IE or Chrome, I get a typical dns error page. For some reason, Safari is still working. My first guess was a caching issue, but…

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Fix for: Why can't my Browser resolve host, but ping and nslookup can?

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For others without a virus: Your browser contains a DNS cache of its own. Try resolving the URL in Firefox or Edge. If you get a different result in Chrome, clear Chrome's DNS cache. Start here: You'll have to copy/paste the link text into Chrome's …

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