Windows 10: Only one computer in my home network can load www.startribune.com

I have a home network, RT-N56U router running both 2.4 and 5 gig and it's switch in use feeding various stuff in the house, a wireless accesspoint, some switches etc. I have Iphone, Ipad, Windows 10 laptop and a Dell 8700 for me and my wife has a Dell 8700 for her use.

None of my wireless equipment can load the startribune website and my Dell 8700 also cannot load the site. My wifes Dell 8700 is the only computer that can load the site, all others get:

This site can’t be reached

The webpage at StarTribune.com: News, weather, sports from Minneapolis, St. Paul and Minnesota might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.

This just started sometime this afternoon, the 8th of Nov.

This seems to be a router issue but for the life of me I cannot see anywhere where my N56U router is blocking anything, maybe it's hidden somewhere that I cannot find. I use DHCP on everything except my printers, they seem to work fine. I'm pretty frustrated trying to solve this, the startribune site is NOT down.

I've powered pretty much everything down, modem, router, switch etc, nothing helps by rebooting the entire network it seems, I'm sure I've been on the startribune website this day prior to this as I went there to check election results.

Any ideas of how to proceed?

TIA,

Gene

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On my one Windows 10 Pro computer in the GARAGE that is on a WiFi connection

to the router in the house....The ONLY PC on my network that can reliably see

the Computer in the GARAGE is my one remaining WINDOWS 7 HOME PC.

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Update.

I just checked my wifes Dell8700 and noticed that I hard assigned a IP and stuff on that computer. I just did the same for my Dell 8700, diff IP but all else the same and now my Dell can access the Startribune site. My wireless equipment still cannot, so something is amiss with the router I suspect but I don' t know how to solve the wireless devices not having that site access.

Help!!!

 

It sounds like your router's DHCP isn't working properly. It doesn't seem to be giving out IP addresses (or maybe only IPv6 addresses). You made your two Dells work by giving then static IP addresses. Either DHCP isn't configured properly on the router, or it may be broken. You could try powering it down (again) to see if that helps. Look carefully at the router's DHCP settings, also look to see what devices and address leases it has on record.

 

Set dns to 208.67.220.220 & 208.67.222.222

 

I've tried everything I can think of, but my wireless devices can't get to the startribune site. I've hard assigned my Dell8700 IP address etc., similar to how I did my wifes 8700 sometime back, for some reason her computer was having trouble getting a DHCP IP address.

I've updated the firmware on my ASUS wireless router, I've checked other devices, like the TIVOs we have, they work fine, the ROKU works fine. I"ve never seen such an issue before myself, only one site that won't work,

The error message says: www.startribune.com's server DNS address could not be found.

Frustrating!!!

 

Try changing dns on pc to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. which will bypass router dns. It sounds like an isp dns issue.

 

I went into the RT-N56U and in the DHCP section, I set the two DNS locations to the above IP addresses. There was one DNS slot and the second was a WINS slot, I put the second ip address there. Don't know if that's right or not but in any case, the wireless devices now can reach the Startribune.com website.

Thanks much for the help but I still don't know what 's going on, my provider, Comcast may be to blame, they should provide the DNS I suspect.

Gene

PS: I also put my PC back to DHCP but left my wife's hard coded as it's been for a long time

 

Almost certainly - apparently they have had problems recently.
Comcast has nationwide internet outage; Houston customers affected - Houston Chronicle

 

Well, all is up and running again, adding the DNS stuff to the DHCP section in the router solved the issue.

Thanks again for everyone's help, these forums are a fantastic resource.

Regards,
Gene