![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
The problem:
My computer's been acting strange lately. I can visit sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, Yahoo, IMDb, and Google Maps just fine, but I can't load Dreamwidth, LJ is really slow to load, and I can't log into AIM at all - whenever I do it's stuck in a perpetual loading limbo. I couldn't access DW or AIM support since, big surprise, I can't access their webpages, so turning to you seemed to be the next logical step. Any idea what the heck's going on with this thing and how I can fix it? We've been having some really windy weather lately, but I don't think that's a contributing factor - I doubt severe weather would be that selective.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Further information:
I'm actually on OS X 10.6.8, so I can't actually use CCleaner or pull up the command prompt like you said. I did try nuking the cache and cookies via Firefox's "Clear Recent History" tool, but that did jack, apparently. Chrome's the same in regards to pickyness - it loads YouTube and Wikipedia just fine, but it refuses to load DreamWidth - it's always a timeout error on FF, for what it's worth (I suspect it's the same with Chrome, but I just get the generic "Oops, we couldn't connect you here" error message).
After trying the nameserver fix suggested at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=265955 this occurred:
The nameservers fix just flat-out breaks Firefox and Chrome. I don't even get a server timeout or error screen, any pages I try to open are just stuck in loading limbo until I delete the nameservers. Opening up a new account and trying it on that didn't help, either.
Does anyone who knows OS X have any suggestions or knowledge of this issue?
My computer's been acting strange lately. I can visit sites like Wikipedia, YouTube, Yahoo, IMDb, and Google Maps just fine, but I can't load Dreamwidth, LJ is really slow to load, and I can't log into AIM at all - whenever I do it's stuck in a perpetual loading limbo. I couldn't access DW or AIM support since, big surprise, I can't access their webpages, so turning to you seemed to be the next logical step. Any idea what the heck's going on with this thing and how I can fix it? We've been having some really windy weather lately, but I don't think that's a contributing factor - I doubt severe weather would be that selective.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
Further information:
I'm actually on OS X 10.6.8, so I can't actually use CCleaner or pull up the command prompt like you said. I did try nuking the cache and cookies via Firefox's "Clear Recent History" tool, but that did jack, apparently. Chrome's the same in regards to pickyness - it loads YouTube and Wikipedia just fine, but it refuses to load DreamWidth - it's always a timeout error on FF, for what it's worth (I suspect it's the same with Chrome, but I just get the generic "Oops, we couldn't connect you here" error message).
After trying the nameserver fix suggested at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=265955 this occurred:
The nameservers fix just flat-out breaks Firefox and Chrome. I don't even get a server timeout or error screen, any pages I try to open are just stuck in loading limbo until I delete the nameservers. Opening up a new account and trying it on that didn't help, either.
Does anyone who knows OS X have any suggestions or knowledge of this issue?
