Talk:Error loading some websites

This article doesn't mention possible DNS issues, ISP issues, proxy issues or other issues mentions in other forum faqs. Jumping straight to the standard diagnostic might be overkill and a bit hasty. At the very least, I'm going to add a link to that forum topic. If we want to actually recreate some of the information in the forum topic in brief, that might be good, too. --Jonnyq

The stuff in that topic is covered in Error loading any website. Would DNS, ISP, or proxy issues affect only some sites and not others?--Np 11:38, 6 September 2005 (PDT)

There are lots of folks in the forums that get "the connection was refused..." on certain sites only. It's not uncommon. It seems like it's often "I can access every site but Google" or even every site but mozilla.org. I have an issue at work where I can't access a certain website, and I know that its their ISP's DNS. I have had a similar issue at home with the same ISP, but different site, while others next door on the same ISP are unaffected. I digress... But yeah, DNS, proxy, etc. can affect some sites while not affecting all, especially with all the various firewall software than can block certain sites. I'll edit this article to point to Error loading any website --Jonnyq

There are two concepts that have been mixed here: (1) all Web sites vs. some Web sites; (2) no access to the Web vs. some access to the Web. I don't have time to straighten it out, but I think the two articles could be: (1) Can't access any Web site; and (2) Can't access some Web sites, or intermittent error loading Web sites. Something like that needs to be done, but I'm concerned that changing titles might break links throughout KB. AnotherGuest

Hosts file

A hosts file has the ability to redirect Internet requests. Review your hosts file to see if it contains any entries other than 127.0.0.1 localhost . be on this page instead of / in addition to Error loading any website?