'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
    2020-04-21T19:04:44+00:00

    This is what he is refering to below and it seem to have fixed my problem.

    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>

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-04-21T19:43:16+00:00

    From my experience, the above is temporary. And it doesn't matter which browser I use. I've tried all of them. I just uninstalled and reinstalled Malwarebytes to see if that works. Is this only happening to people using Malwarebytes for antivirus software?

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-04-21T23:01:43+00:00

    Hello,

    This one...

    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>

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-05-05T14:53:50+00:00

    Didn't work, have tried everything listed above with no solution, hope a solution pops up soon.

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