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General Category => Off the Record => Computer Affairs => Topic started by: Josephus on September 22, 2013, 03:12:00 PM

Title: Resolving host
Post by: Josephus on September 22, 2013, 03:12:00 PM
Anyone know what his means? Im using chrome. Web browsing is very slow. At the bottom left when I'm trying to get onto a website it says "resolving host."
Title: Re: Resolving host
Post by: Darth Wagtaros on September 22, 2013, 06:54:11 PM
Trying to find the web server.
Title: Re: Resolving host
Post by: Josephus on September 22, 2013, 07:09:47 PM
It's working fine now. What could the problem have been. Came back by itself.
Title: Re: Resolving host
Post by: DontSayBanana on September 22, 2013, 08:54:16 PM
Quote from: Josephus on September 22, 2013, 07:09:47 PM
It's working fine now. What could the problem have been. Came back by itself.

Resolving host is a DNS issue; if you're behind a wireless router, it could theoretically be the router's connection dropping (it also happens on wired connections, but it's much more rare), if you're on a wired connection, odds are the ISP's router that you connect to got overloaded upstream from you.
Title: Re: Resolving host
Post by: Josephus on September 24, 2013, 06:12:00 AM
So should that happen again and it doesn't come back, should a reboot of the modem/router/computer help?
Title: Re: Resolving host
Post by: DontSayBanana on September 24, 2013, 07:12:12 AM
Quote from: Josephus on September 24, 2013, 06:12:00 AM
So should that happen again and it doesn't come back, should a reboot of the modem/router/computer help?

50/50.  Definitely can't hurt.