Anyone else strugging with IE8 DNS issues? | The Coffeehouse

Simo
With me it's a full-time job.

I'm seeing some weird DNS errors with this shiny new IE8 browser.

- wired.com , tuaw.com, richarddawkins.net all generate random DNS errors some-of-the-time/all-off-the-time-for-periods. Wired.com even did a weird one on me when it get trying to reload the page over & over. Never rendering any html just status messages on the bottom going crazy until I pressed stop.

The other browser on my machine is Chrome and it never has any problems.

I clutched at a few straws to try and make the problem go away. Flushed DNS cache, deleted all IE cached data, the big reboot. Still no joy.

Was wondering if this is just me and every one else is hunky dory?

nwcook

same issue. lots of sites come up with DNS errors Network Error (dns_server_failure)

even internal sites... I can go to command prompt, ping "myhost" and it resolves to the correct ip:
ping myhost

pinging myhost.mydomain.com [10.1.1.18] with 32 bytes of data:
reply from 10.1.1.18...etc.

then i go to IE8 and I get dns_server_failure.
then i go to firefox and it works just fine.

Simo
With me it's a full-time job.

In reply to nwcook

#Apr 28th @ 8:35 PM

Sorry to hear you have same issue but glad to know it's not my imagination.

In the end it's not really a biggie. Chrome is set to be my default browser again and the problem is solved.

intelman

Wow, I thought it was my internet connection. Perhaps I have been experiencing this.

rahsoftware
Me, Rob & my C9 Guy hard at work :-)

I too am having serious connection issues, for some reason though Firefox works fine, it's only been happening since I upgraded from IE7 to IE8.

Harlequin
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In reply to rahsoftware

#Apr 29th @ 7:12 AM

Yeah, I get this on my machine at home once in a while, even when surfing to a site like cnn.com I'll get that "Can't display this page" error page. Refresh, and it's fine.

Is it a bad DNS-driver-thinger in IE8 or something?

intelman

I do not remember Windows 7 Beta 1 having this issue, but perhaps it does too. Anyone know?

magicalclick

In reply to intelman

#Apr 29th @ 8:41 AM

I am using Win7 Beta. Works perfectly. I guess only the IE8 RTM is bad.

Typhoon87
Facilitator of our reality

In reply to magicalclick

#Apr 29th @ 1:43 PM

Hmm, cant say that I have and I have been running it since beta 2, rc 1, final and some if it on vista sp1, and sp 2 beta and escrow builds. Not once have I seen this.

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

Before testing for other things, I would run a scan with Malwarebytes first. There is a common dns malware virus thing that will show this strange behavior.

stevo_
Human after all

I think theres a general outage in the uk if that helps, I've been seeing really slow unreliable connections to certain sites both from work and at home.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

In reply to Harlequin

#Apr 29th @ 8:28 AM

That's what I get a lot too. Random "Can't display this page" messages. Refresh, and it's back to normal.

Simo
With me it's a full-time job.

It's my work PC that's running IE8 and our London based ISP have had a few DNS hiccups in the past. So... my first thought was that they were having trouble again, but Chrome is consistently working and the rest of my office are using IE7 with no complaints.

Will check out stacyw's suggestion re: some dns malware.