Safari won't connect to Websites

[orla]

My OX 10.6 snow leopard won't connect to certain websites. Safari says it can't find the url and therefore cannot connect. This is particularly frustrating since one of the site is my own. I have to keep thinking of key words belonging to my site and trying to connect that way using google.

Can any one help?😡

 

[Dave Braine]

Can you post a link to said websites, to see if anyone else has the same problem? Have you tried Firefox or Chrome?

 

[brandone]

My OX 10.6 snow leopard won't connect to certain websites. Safari says it can't find the url and therefore cannot connect. This is particularly frustrating since one of the site is my own. I have to keep thinking of key words belonging to my site and trying to connect that way using google.

Can any one help?😡

If you are able to connect to some websites, but not all, it most likely has to do with your ISP's DNS resolution.
Go into System Preferences ----> Network -----> select either wifi or ethernet (which ever you use to connect to the internet) ----> Advanced -----> DNS ----> + -----> Add 8.8.8.8 ----> ok ----> apply
8.8.8.8 is google's public DNS server, it's great for DNS requests.
Good Luck.

 

[orla]

Safari won't connect to Websites

Thanks Brandone - so far so good - 🙂

 

[agr5]

I was just experiencing this same issue. I tired adding 8.8.8.8 to my DSN list and it didn't work. I finally figured out that peerguardian was the reason certain websites wouldn't load.

Even though peerguardian wasn't running it was still blocking the sites somehow. I opened peerguardian went to 'File' -> 'Disable Filters' and now everything loads just fine.

Weird thing is, I have had peerguardian installed for a while and had no issues until a couple days ago...