Comments | stoutfellow: Icon't Stand It

stoutfellow

Icon't Stand It

May 14, 2018 04:07

Every so often - it's rare, but not nonexistent - my WiFi flakes for a bit, and I can't access anything. It usually resolves in a matter of minutes, but it leaves one trace: any websites in my Bookmark list that I try to access during the flake have their icons in the Bookmark menu replaced by the AT&T (my ISP) logo ( Read more... )

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kk1raven May 29 2018, 19:29:52 UTC

The icon probably comes from the last page you accessed using the bookmark. I'm going to guess that AT&T's DNS server is taking you to an AT&T web page when there is an error rather than letting your browser tell you the address is no good. If that's the case, using a DNS server that doesn't act that way would probably resolve the problem. It is possible that a different DNS server would also resolve the flakiness too since the DNS server could be what is acting flaky. (Does the wifi connection go away or does it just not work while you are supposedly connected? The former is a wifi issue but the latter could well be a DNS issue.) I've been using Cloudfare's DNS servers for the past few months with good results.