Internet surfing in recent years has become available to anyone. And the truth is that without leaving home you can get information on any issue. But, unfortunately, it happens that you launch the browser, and the site does not open. Why? This question is asked by almost all users who have at least once encountered such a problem. Let's look at the causes of this phenomenon and methods for correcting the situation. Depending on the very reason for the appearance of such failures and solutions, you can offer a lot of different options.
Why sites do not open in a working browser?
Most likely, many noticed that sometimes when entering the address of the requested resource, instead of opening the desired page, various kinds of messages are issued stating that the site or service is unavailable, the timeout has passed, the site does not exist, etc.
In general, there are a lot of variations of such notifications, and their appearance is not always associated with incorrect settings of the local terminal or some incorrect actions of the user himself. It is entirely possible that some, so to speak, global reasons are to blame for this, which are further proposed to be considered in full.
The Internet works, websites do not open: primary reasons
When considering the main issue, we will proceed from the fact that a user with an Internet connection is really all right. But why, then, does not open a single site?
Among all that could cause such a phenomenon, several main ones can be distinguished, namely:
- problems on the part of the provider;
- problems on the server being accessed;
- blocking the resource or user machine address;
- incorrect settings of access protocols;
- browser cache overflow;
- exposure to viruses and much more.
The above list shows only the obvious reasons for this phenomenon. In fact, there can be many more. But we will exclusively consider these options, since the elimination of such malfunctions often allows you to get rid of some of the accompanying problems, which can not always be eliminated with conventional methods (even some preventive measures do not work).
Check your internet connection
So, some site does not open. What to do? To get started, just reload the page. If the browser displays an error that the service is temporarily unavailable, you may need to withstand a certain temporary pause, and then try again. If the notification contains a link to nginx, this is direct evidence that your Windows-based browser is incompatible with a resource that is managed by UNIX. In principle, this is not a problem. Pause and retry access. It is possible that the server was simply overloaded. Worse, when a DDoS attack was carried out with an excessive number of requests, when the server simply does not have time to respond to them. Naturally, we will not consider these situations, but move on to more pressing problems.
On the other hand, you should check the connection itself, especially if access to the Internet is carried out wirelessly through a router. To begin with, if sites do not open in Windows 10, for example, but the router signals that a connection has been established, try to access the Internet from any other device, say, from a mobile phone. If access will be, the problem is in your computer, otherwise - in the network settings. But do not rush to change them. A fairly common problem associated with the fact that some site does not open in the browser is a malfunction of the router itself. To restore its normal operation, it is necessary to perform a complete reboot with a factory reset. Reset button, which is usually located on the rear panel, do not even try to use. It will not give the expected effect anyway. The most preferred method is to completely disconnect the router from the mains with a pause before turning it back on for about 10-15 seconds. Some experts advise to withstand a longer period, but it seems that this is quite enough for home models of the TP-Link series.
After turning on, the sensor indicated by the Internet icon should blink on the router. If it does not burn, the provider appears to have a problem. Contact Support. If the ping of your router does not go well, it may very well be the problem with the hardware. If the provider determines your router, but the requested site does not open in the browser, it is quite possible that the problem is either in the access settings on your part or in the restrictions that may concern the requested resource directly.
So, for example, when you try to access US Internet radio stations from the territory of the post-Soviet space, a notification will be issued that access to the resource is prohibited from this region, but is designed only for users who are geographically located in the United States. We will dwell on how to get around such restrictions a little later. In the meantime, a few words about possible problems that may arise on user terminals or even mobile devices.
Setting Access Protocol
Why sites do not open? Yes, only because the user’s computer has incorrect network access settings. You can check them by changing the properties of the adapter, where Ipv4 protocol settings are selected. Immediately pay attention to the moment that with a wireless connection, all addresses should be received in automatic mode. In this case, we are talking about using dynamic IP.
If any site does not open, try setting a static address, which should differ in the last digit from the address of the router. For example, the address of the router is usually presented in combinations 192.168.01 or 1.1. Set the address 192.168.0.6 or any other for the last digit for your terminal, save the changes, reboot the system and check the Internet access.
DNS Addresses and Proxy Usage
Why sites do not open, a little understood. But the solution to the problem is still very far from completion. In fact, even with the automatic settings in Windows installed, the connection may work completely wrong.
It is worth considering that the use of a proxy is possible only if it is provided by the provider. Check the IPv4 protocol settings again, and in the additional options, uncheck the box for using proxies for local addresses, if any.
On the other hand, with these settings everything can be in perfect order, but, say, HTTPS sites do not open. In fact, the addresses of such resources represent accessibility only in the form of a secure connection, and the settings of the primary or alternative DNS server cannot always convert domain names into such digital queries. In this case, we are talking about changing their addresses, despite the default automatic receipt set. Here it is worth using the most common and popular combinations from Google, which are presented in the image above. Just write this data in the addresses, save the changes and check if access to the necessary resources has resumed.
Flush cache
But suppose, after that, some site does not open. This may even be connected with the settings of the default browser, in which a huge amount of computer garbage has accumulated in the form of a cache, temporary files, cookies, cached images, etc. Ordinary users do not think about cleaning browsers. But no well-known browser has automated tools for this. And cluttering the browser just leads to the fact that in the same "Opera" sites do not open.
There are two ways out in this situation: either to clear the history by deleting everything that was mentioned above manually, or to entrust this matter to optimizer programs like Advanced SystemCare or CCleaner, which are considered leaders in the market of software products for cleaning and speeding up Windows systems.
If even after optimization the requested site does not open, you can do it in a completely cardinal way by setting a full reset of the browser settings to the factory settings. This feature is available in all browsers, regardless of the developer. By the way, this option sometimes helps when removing virus threats of an advertising nature.
Reset Connection Settings
How to open a site on the Internet, any user knows. To do this, just enter the usual address. But what to do if the address is correct and the Internet connection does not work?
Here you will have to use the cardinal tools that are available in any Windows operating system of the latest generations. To get started, call the command line with administrator rights through the Run console by entering the abbreviation cmd in the program field. If you won’t run as administrator, you will have to find a similar EXE file in the System32 directory and run it as administrator through the PCM menu.
In the console that appears, write the following:
- ipconfig / flushdns;
- ipconfig / registerdns;
- ipconfig / renew;
- ipconfig / release.
This will lead to a complete reset of the DNS settings, and it is with them that most of the problems are connected, except for the DHCP server settings on the router. But in this case, it is assumed that everything is in order with the parameters of the router.
What to do if the site is blocked?
Finally, let's see why the Yandex site sometimes does not open. There are no prerequisites for the occurrence of problems. But! In Ukraine, recently, almost all Russian-language news, search resources and popular social networks have been blocked. And if Yandex with its start page is still somehow loading, the rest of the sites like Mail.Ru or VK are not at all. And even then, with a sin in half downloading the Yandex home page, it will be impossible to use any of the available services.
How to open a site that is blocked at the state level? Yes elementary! No one has yet canceled the use of so-called VPN clients. In any browser, you can install the appropriate add-on / extension.
In Opera, everything is even simpler, since it is in this browser that this client is built into the shell itself. It is enough to activate it for the first time in the settings, after which a corresponding switch will appear to the left of the address bar. When the mode is activated, the server from which the user will be connected is selected in automatic mode. If you need to change the location, you can do this manually, indicating the preferred country of location in which the user computer is supposedly located.
But we can give another completely non-trivial example when the YouTube site does not open. Of course, there were no such problems in the post-Soviet space, but in China and North Korea, yes. Access is restricted even to such popular social networks as Facebook and Twitter. The worst thing is that the governments of these countries have attracted such cool specialists who created a firewall (blocking barrier) at such a state level that no VPN clients help, and the use of such applications is carefully monitored and punished with the slightest suspicion, and quite severely .
Virus scan
But we were a little distracted. If a site does not open, this does not mean that the operating system, browser settings or incorrect user actions are to blame. Not at all! Here we are faced with viruses, which are so many on the Internet that it is impossible to imagine. Not to mention malicious codes that cause irreparable damage to the operating system itself, the most common viruses are those related to the so-called browser hijackers (Hijackers and Adware categories).
Such virus applets cannot even be called viruses, since most of them have all the trust rights to install as affiliate software, and some of these applications, in addition to everything, also have supposedly official certificates of authenticity. At best, they are recognized as unwanted software to install. And precisely for this reason, most antiviruses when starting the installation in the background, which the user either does not guess about or agrees when the installer of another program (most often games in the form of a repack) works, the installation of such applets is simply ignored, considering what is happening the installation of official software.
It is possible and necessary to deal with this. For starters, you can use portable scanners like KVRT or Dr. Web CureIt. If it turns out that the virus is deeply embedded in RAM, you will have to use programs like Kaspersky Rescue Disk. This is a disk utility that, when writing to removable media, if you set it first in the boot priority in the BIOS settings, it starts before the operating system boots up and detects viruses that many would never have thought that such threats exist on the computer.
What is the result?
Actually, this is all that can be briefly said about the described problem. Probably, it is clear that there can be much more reasons for this phenomenon than those that have been described. For example, it is obvious that there were not considered problems associated with similar situations when connecting to local or virtual networks, when the addresses of each device are assigned automatically or by the system administrator, but the server itself from which the request is made does not work. These are, so to speak, special cases, but in the general understanding for each user, the solutions presented in most cases allow eliminating the problem when access to some resource is impossible or blocked. The most important conclusion that can be drawn from all of the above is to carefully check the settings, and if necessary, change them (at least, using alternative DNS addresses will give your result). It goes without saying that if the reason for the access denial is purely on the technical side of the issue, you will have to contact the provider's support service directly. But it is worth considering the use of VPN clients, which in themselves are capable of making a secure connection and fixing a huge number of problems that were observed during a normal connection (meaning geolocation).
In general, the solutions presented allow you to get rid of many bugs, unless they are related to the provider or the functionality of the resource itself. Finally, pay attention also to the moment that if your provider does not have a DHCPv6 server at its disposal, you should disable the same version of IP, otherwise conflicts with the fourth version may occur.