Certain websites not loading

[Akuma]

My friend is having this problem and I'm pretty clueless on the issue:

He recently reformatted his laptop with Windows XP + SP2. Internet connection is established and most websites load, however certain sites (he lists: aol mail, myspace, and most sites retrieved through a search engine) won't load at all. This happens in both Firefox and IE.

The computer is virus and spyware free, all drivers are up-to-date, and host files are fine. It continues to happen with or without his firewall up. No hardware has changed. Winsock did not fix the problem.

I searched for a while but didn't find anything too helpful that we didn't already try and we're stumped now. Any ideas [H]?

Thanks.

 

[smaug8821]

Are other computers on the network having trouble? Did he try restarting his router and modem?

 

[gimp]

does MSN load up? or Microsoft?
router?
any other PCs to test with?

 

[msabo]

does MSN load up? or Microsoft?
router?
any other PCs to test with?

Is he at work or at a school which blocks access to myspace, youtube, etc?

Try this...
Go under "start" select "run" at the open: enter cmd click ok
enter ping www.myspace.com

Do you get a reply? If not, its being blocked at the IP level. If you do get a response, write down the IP address you see. When I do it, I see 63.135.80.45
Now open your browser and enter http://63.135.80.45 or whatever IP address you see, it doesn't really matter. What happens? If you have a DNS issue myspace should come up with this address. Actually if you have a DNS issue the ping would not have resolved.

 

[bryanwii]

Change the secondary DNS server to 4.2.2.6, flush the DNS in DOS with
ipconfig /flushdns

see what happens

 

[Captain Colonoscopy]

Change the secondary DNS server to 4.2.2.6

no way . . . 4.2.2.2 is so much better than 4.2.2.6!!!


Does sound like a DNS issue. Some more information would be helpful. Like if the laptop has the same problem from different networks or if it is just at home or work or something.