Windows won't connect to Free republic(Vanity,Help)

self | 03/16/21 | self

[Carriage Hill]

Not at all.

Unless a piece of hardware takes a dump. and can’t be replaced, Win-7 Pro x64 will run a long time, if you have Norton 360, MalwareBytes Premium, CCleaner Premium, and all the Win-7 Updates until the cut-off date.

Both my 2009 HP industrial/commercial-grade towers run sweetly with Win7 Pro x64, far better than all crappy Win-8/8.1, and most Win-10 units.

[knarf]

When I lose the internet ... it automatically goes through the re-set mode

[Carriage Hill]

If you have a MAIN CATV box, with a blue stripe down the side (mine does), hit the reset button on top, unplug both the modem power and USB cables, wait a few minutes and replug the modem.

You may need to get a reset signal sent from CommieCast, but the manual ritual above seems to fix mine.

Let me know if/ how that works; I have one more workaround.

[Right Wing Assault]

Bill Gates: we would all be driving $25.00 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.

OK, let's see you do it.

Oh, I forgot you're too busy trying to screw up the country.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Was having similar problems; cleared out cache and now getting to my email service.

[knarf]

All OK, thanx

[MHGinTN]

I too cannot open FR with explorer. Firefox works though.

[Carriage Hill]

GOOD!

[Openurmind]

I have found that the software Discord chat installs in your machine when you join will do this too. They are Cryptojacking your resources making your machine burn tons of resources it should not be.

I will never hit their server again ever. You have to reinstall your OS to fully get rid of it.

[linMcHlp]

In my reply 75, I meant to say:

What I wrote in replies 38 and 40

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3942604/posts?page=38#38

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3942604/posts?page=40#4

. . . aimed to help people resolve the matter (for now).

[MHGinTN]

Thanks, removing the www worked

[Bob434]

i guess what i was asking was, since we’re all not having problems, our DNS addy must have updated automatically? I didn’t have to input anything into my dns log- or whatever it’s called-

[Bob434]

i know he was having an issue connecting- i just wondered why his didn’t automatically update like the rest of ours did?

[linMcHlp]

Too many possibilities, including combinations of problems.

[linMcHlp]

Correction; both entries in your hosts file, are valid:

45.79.56.181 freerepublic.com
45.79.56.181 www.freerepublic.com

[linMcHlp]

These 3 Internet browsers have the problem:

Brave Browser (includes some Mozilla code)
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox

[JRios1968]

Ralph wants to know if you checked the spork weasel?

[Bob434]

Ah, one question, if he had trouble with all three browsers, do all three use same dns file? Just asking for future reference incase someone should encounter this issue. Seems like all three browsers were affected by a single problem. Good call on it not going to the right address.

Dns issues are a bit out of my limited knowledge range though. But good to know for future reference. Always a good idea to check if other browsers are affected too, that narrows down the issue some

[linMcHlp]

No simple answer.

I did not say that “he had trouble with all three browsers.”
I said, “These 3 Internet browsers have the problem:

Brave Browser (includes some Mozilla code)
Internet Explorer
Mozilla Firefox”

By “the problem,” I mean having some connection issues, trying to quickly connect to FreeRepublic.com.

For some reason - *possibly* unique to each of those three Internet browsers - they either stall, give up, or become idle . . . and then, after idle (usually more than 1 minute) suddenly make the connection.

There are a lot of working parts, involved in making a connection, and then maintaining a connection. Too much to layout here in detail.

Brave Browser had an upgrade on Monday, 03/15/2021. Brave Browser is mostly based upon Chromium, but there is also some Mozilla code involved. The BB people are mostly, very cryptic about the details of what is actually upgraded, and what might be bumped, changed, replaced.

So, maybe the Brave Browser upgrade did something - I cannot discover that “something” unless I spend a long, long time pursuing it.

There could be a combination of things, for each of the three Internet browsers.

The home (NTT America, Inc.) for the old FreeRepublic.com IP address: 209.157.64.200 , still remembers that IP address refers to both:

freerepublic.com
www.freerepublic.com

Somewhere, there is possibly a DNS record, for that condition; and, I do not know how that may be confusing some methods used, for establishing connections to FreeRepublic.com.

In my reply 38, I suggested that users with the problem, edit their hosts file, adding the line:

45.79.56.181 freerepublic.com

I much later realized that both entries in the hosts file, helped:

45.79.56.181 freerepublic.com
45.79.56.181 www.freerepublic.com

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27350/beginner-geek-how-to-edit-your-hosts-file/

In general, I suggest connecting to:

https://freerepublic.com/

https://freerepublic.com/perl/login

https://freerepublic.com/focus/search

IOW, there, do not use:

https://www. . . .

Throughout yesterday (Tuesday, 03/16/2021) I monitored several DNS servers, testing their speeds of response, to resolving domain name “freerepublic.com”.

Sometimes, there were significant delays . . . but last night, I realized that more probable, is that there is something going on, with the three Internet browsers mentioned above -— they are each, somehow, a party to their own problems connecting.

DNS servers need DNS records (wherever DNS records are stored), to be accurate. Mistakes become a penalty re performance.

DNS servers that respond to your computer, are not necessarily the same DNS servers that respond to somebody else’s server.

Your DNS servers, might get good DNS record info.

Somebody else’s DNS servers, might struggle with tidbits of bad DNS record info.

The DNS servers that you believe, your computer is using, might not actually be the case.

Windows OS

https://askleo.com/find-dns-server-used-pc/

EXCERPT:

In Windows 10, right-click on the Start menu and click on Command Prompt (or Windows PowerShell — either will do). In most other versions of Windows, click on Start, then All Programs, then Accessories, and finally on Command prompt.

Type “ipconfig /all” followed by Enter. You’ll get a lot of information.

In the midst of all that information, you can see “DNS Servers” listed.

Mac OS

Terminal.app command line:

$ cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep ^nameserver | cut -d “ “ -f 2

In that last command, there is a standard, run-of-the-mill, single space between each of the double-quotes.

Possible clue, re Brave Browser:

If I refresh / reload a webpage at FreeRepublic.com, within 20 seconds, then Brave Browser maintains a fast connection.

But, if I wait too long, then Brave Browser enters an idle state . . . and over 1 minute will pass by, before Brave Browser is able to refresh / reload.

[linMcHlp]

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