Cannot open google, yahoo etc [not hosts file problem]

[vickystylton]

I could access google, yahoo etc. till yesterday. But now, when I booted my pc, I found that I am not able to open up these sites or any related sites like gmail, youtube etc.(Could open yahoomail.com though). It gets redirected to either a searchportal or an error page:

500 Error - Web Site is Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems.

Please try again later.

First thing I did was to check my hosts file. It was clean.

Then, I tried scanning my pc. Nothing suspicious.

Stopped dnscache service and tried again. No luck.

Then, I switched off my modem, switched it back on, and booted into ubuntu, suspecting an undetectable virus/malware in xp. But, the problem exists in ubuntu as well. Hosts file of ubuntu is also clean.

P.S. My ubuntu is like a live cd, but installed on hard disk, thanks to an error in wubi. So that means that there isn't any problem with my ubuntu. So it can't be a corrupted one either.

Any help would be appreciated.

[sujay]

May be a problem with your ISP. Try calling them. It is not a malware problem IMO as you see it even in Ubuntu.

[vickystylton]

May be a problem with your ISP. Try calling them. It is not a malware problem IMO as you see it even in Ubuntu.

Yes, that's what I doubt too. If that's the case, it might get rectified by tomorrow itself. I will post the update here.

If there are more suggestions, I'll be glad to hear about it.

By the way, I can open up google by its ip address (209.85.231.104), but not able to perform a search though.

[sujay]

Kindly change your DNS Service to Google, Open DNS, Norton DNS, Sunbelt DNS, Comodo DNS or anything you like and report back if the problem persists..

[INDRANIL]

Hi vickystylton is Bsnl your isp?? If so then don't need to worry they are updating there servers that's why it is happening. I've also faced that problem.

[Alboguy]

Yeah it migth be an ISP issue. Maybe changing the DNS server would fix the problem.

[Swarup]

If it is your ISP issue and change DNS server solved this problem then try this

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