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.

Hi debbie1999999 and thanks for reaching out. My name is Joseph. I'm an independent advisor. I'll be happy to help you out today. Open CMD as an administrator mode and type in, ipconfig /release <Press Enter> ipconfig /renew <Press Enter> ipconfig /flushdns <Press Enter> ipconfig /registerdns <Press Enter> nbtstat -rr <Press Enter> netsh int ip reset all <Press Enter> netsh winsock reset <Press Enter> I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let me know how it goes. Thank you!

Done - I will report back here if it happens again. Thanks!

Hi debbie1999999, Whenever you can. There is no hurry. Thanks!

I fixed the same problem a few minutes ago and started looking for people it. What fixed it in my case was turning off Malwarebytes.

It is still happening every few days. What would be the exception I'd need to use in Malwarebytes? I don't really want to remove this if I don't have to, but I will disable web protection for the next few days to test it.

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

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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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2020-02-07T16:55:47+00:00

Hi debbie1999999 and thanks for reaching out. My name is Joseph. I'm an independent advisor. I'll be happy to help you out today.

Open CMD as an administrator mode and type in,

ipconfig /release <Press Enter>

ipconfig /renew <Press Enter>

ipconfig /flushdns <Press Enter>

ipconfig /registerdns <Press Enter>

nbtstat -rr <Press Enter>

netsh int ip reset all <Press Enter>

netsh winsock reset <Press Enter>

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let me know how it goes.

Thank you!
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2020-02-07T20:15:20+00:00

Done - I will report back here if it happens again. Thanks!
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2020-02-07T20:29:22+00:00

Hi debbie1999999,

Whenever you can. There is no hurry.

Thanks!
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2020-02-10T00:19:19+00:00

I fixed the same problem a few minutes ago and started looking for people it. What fixed it in my case was turning off Malwarebytes.
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2020-02-15T15:23:57+00:00

It is still happening every few days.

What would be the exception I'd need to use in Malwarebytes? I don't really want to remove this if I don't have to, but I will disable web protection for the next few days to test it.
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