'Resolving Hosts' issue in Chrome and other browsers now occurs almost daily

Anonymous
2020-02-07T15:28:09+00:00

About 3 weeks ago I first saw 'resolving hosts' in Chrome when pages weren't loading, or were taking several minutes to load. The same thing was happening in Firefox and Edge at the same time.  At that time a reboot seemed to fix it. 

Since then it's happened frequently, every few days. I tried a number of things and at first these sometimes seemed to be working, sometimes with a reboot:

  • Changed to public DNS for TCP/IPv4: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4
  • Cycling modem and router
  • Clearing browser caches
  • Flushing PC cache
  • Made sure Chrome page preload was off
  • Checked host file
  • Not using a VPN or proxy server
  • Turned off port scan/DoS protection in router (previous router)

Now I'm encountering 'resolving hosts' almost every single day. Sometimes it happens when I first turn on the PC in the morning. Sometimes in the middle of the day when I'm working, it will suddenly start.

The only thing that now works reliably is typing this in a command window and rebooting:

netsh int ip reset

Can someone please help me get to the root of this problem? I'd never seen it before about 3-3.5 weeks ago.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-07T00:12:08+00:00

    Just received an email from MWB tech support. They just released an update to MWB on May 29th, 2020. Download this and try it out. I've been trying it for two days and no resolving host issue. However, it's slow to load websites. I cleared cached. We'll see.

    I have had similar success. Time will tell...

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-06-04T01:21:13+00:00

    Just received an email from MWB tech support. They just released an update to MWB on May 29th, 2020. Download this and try it out. I've been trying it for two days and no resolving host issue. However, it's slow to load websites. I cleared cached. We'll see.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-06-03T21:08:32+00:00

    All - experiencing the same problem ("Resolving hosts...") in all browsers for a couple of months. I, too, have MWB installed, so I just uninstalled it to see if that prevents the issue from occurring. Hoping that does the trick, because it happened almost daily for me and the only way I could resolve would be to reboot.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-05-25T06:13:03+00:00

    I am also running MWB Premium. Removing MWB might fix this issue but creates a security and safety problem. If MWB is indeed the problem I would think Microsoft and Malwarebytes ought to get together and resolve it.

    I should note that in the last three days there have been two separate MWB updates requiring a restart. You might want to try reinstalling MWB on your new machine.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-05-24T21:47:33+00:00

    Has MS blocked this thread or just certain parties who have different opinions about MSN's inability or unwillingness to address and fix the problem?

    Received notification of a response by yanjian that does not appear in this thread. Has yanjian been censored?

    Yanjian occupation is listed as a software engineer.

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