Certain Websites not loading

[rackman99]

Hi, I am using a BT VOyager 2100 router with Orange (formally wanadoo) as my ISP. A majority of websites will not load, some will i.e.

http://www.google.com

but the most i.e.

http://www.windows.com

will not. This is with either a pc or lapop, I have disabled firewall settings on both pc/lap and router, modified the router MTU to 1400, but to no avail. I can ping sites no problem and a tracert provides the follwing
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]


C:\Documents and Settings>tracert

http://www.windows.com

Tracing route to windows.com [207.46.197.32]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms voyager.home [192.168.1.1]
2 14 ms 11 ms 11 ms 87.237.21.173
3 11 ms 13 ms * 10.192.0.233
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms 194.35.183.93
6 31 ms 27 ms 26 ms ae0-192.loncr5.London.opentransit.net [193.251.2
52.193]
7 27 ms 26 ms 26 ms ge-1-3-0-0.loncr4.London.opentransit.net [193.25
1.242.238]
8 100 ms 101 ms 101 ms po11-0.ashcr1.Ashburn.opentransit.net [193.251.2
40.82]
9 120 ms 199 ms 200 ms microsoft.GW.opentransit.net [193.251.248.38]
10 100 ms 101 ms 101 ms ge-0-3-0-57.ash-64cb-1b.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.41.
57]
11 174 ms 173 ms 174 ms so-7-2-0-0.tuk-64cb-1a.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.34.5
3]
12 180 ms 177 ms 179 ms ge-0-0-0-0.tuk-64cb-1b.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.41.7
4]
13 174 ms 174 ms 174 ms ge-6-1-0-0.wst-64cb-1b.ntwk.msn.net [207.46.35.3
4]
14 182 ms 182 ms 183 ms

http://www.windows.com

[207.46.197.32]

Trace complete.

C:\Documents and Settings>tracert

http://www.google.com

Tracing route to

http://www.l.google.com

[66.249.93.147]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms voyager.home [192.168.1.1]
2 10 ms 11 ms 12 ms 87.237.21.173
3 12 ms 17 ms 12 ms 10.192.0.229
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 27 ms 26 ms 25 ms 194.35.183.93
6 26 ms 26 ms 31 ms ae0-192.loncr5.London.opentransit.net [193.251.2
52.193]
7 34 ms 35 ms 34 ms level3-1.GW.opentransit.net [193.251.254.98]
8 35 ms 35 ms 35 ms ae-31-55.ebr1.London1.Level3.net [4.68.116.158]

9 42 ms 36 ms 36 ms ae-1-100.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.132.118]

10 36 ms 36 ms 49 ms ae-2.ebr2.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [4.69.132.134]
11 36 ms 36 ms 35 ms ae-21-54.car1.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [4.68.120.11
1]
12 36 ms 36 ms 36 ms GOOGLE-INC.car1.Amsterdam1.Level3.net [212.72.46
.230]
13 39 ms 39 ms 39 ms 64.233.175.246
14 45 ms 38 ms 40 ms 72.14.233.81
15 44 ms 38 ms 53 ms 216.239.47.229
16 39 ms 39 ms 38 ms

http://www.google.com

[66.249.93.147]

Trace complete.
I have also tried setting the DNS manually to open but that didn't help either. Any help would be most appreciated.

 

[dthompson82]

Have you checked to make sure you don't have a proxy server set or set incorrectly? Also, try clearing out all your temporary internet files, history and DNS cache (ipconfig /flushdns).

Try connecting to google.com using telnet on port 80 (telnet

http://www.google.com

80). Just type something in and you should receive some kind of response from the server.

This will confirm if you can get basic connecticity to the HTTP servers. If you can, it would indicate a browser issue. If not, more likely a firewall or lower level issue.

 

[rackman99]

Hi, thanks for that, emptied the caches, switched off the firewall XP protection and tried the telnet, but got no reponse from

http://www.google.com.

I may not be completely sure that I'm totally switching the firewall off BT Voyager 2100, so that might be a part of it, but still not sure why some sites wotk in my browser (

http://www.googlw.com,www.sportinglife.com)

but the majority don't (including trying to log onto mesaanger)

 

[lhuegele]

Have you tried logging into those web sites by their IP addresses? If that works then the problem may be pointing to a DNS server issue.

 

[rackman99]

Tried that, same issues: sites that worked via their name worked, sites that didn't, didn't!