Connected to Internet But Can't Browse?

Wardrop19, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

This problem has been driving me crazy, and yours is the ONLY solution that worked.

OSX 10.6 on iMac, internet working fine on all other devices, Dropbox and Skype, but not any browser or iTunes store.

My internet has always worked almost flawlessly for years, but sometimes (noticeably after streaming an episode of something), any pages except for gmail, google search (only worked with Firefox, not Safari), and Apple forums would refuse to load.

Rebooting the router/modem, Airport and the computer didn't work, and I've been tearing my hair out for so long. Stumbled on your solution, and while I don't understand why, force quitting mDNSResponder worked instantaneously!

Thanks again!!

I could just HUG you for your answer! Why? Because as you can imagine, I've been pulling out what little hair I have left and wasting so many hours trying to figure out WHY I could connect to the web wirelessly with my iPad, my iPhone, my MacBook Air, with FileZilla, Dropbox, etc. but NOT with any of my browsers! It was driving me crazy. Thankfully, I tried YOUR solution and it worked immediately. I've been online now for about 3 hours and I hope the old problem won't come back. If it does, I guess I'll try your solution again and again. Since you wrote your answer back in 2011, have you learned anything more about the problem?

Whether you see this comment or not, THANK YOU for providing a solution that seems to be working for me!

Hi, I have the same problem and I try all the sugestions before, flush DNS, changin DNS, clean cache, PRAM and I still getting the same issue. But when I browse from a windows virtual machine on the mac I load all webpage without any problems.

After many test I found that in chrome, firefox, safary can browse only webpages that use SSL for example https://google.com because when you reach it in the browser it's redirect to an ssl connection, I made the same test to many other sites that use SSL and I can browse. But If you only try to access any webpage to 80 port they never load.

If any one have an idea about what is happening here ? please let me know.

My firewall was down and antivirus diseable when I made the test.

Do you use the OS's built in firewall? if so, next time the issue happens try turning the firewall off.

if you don't use the firewall, have you tried a Safeboot? A Safeboot will clear out cache files, repair file permissions. It can resolve lots of strange issues.

Having exactly the same problem. It seems to me that it come after having installed a software for saving data on the WEB. I deleted the software but the problem is still there. Perhaps I did not clean properly all the components because I remark that in the morning, the computer is awake without my intervention.

On the same computer I have VMWare running windows XP and the internet connection works properly.

hi, I have the same problem. Can someone help me? I'm using two laptops right now. I tried to browse the net using my HP and it worked well. Now I have my new macbook pro and it didn't work well. In my mac network settings, it shows it is connected to the server but I when i browse the net, it won't open a page. Can someone help me how to fix thix problem? Thank you.

Did you get this issue fixed as I am experiencing the same issues for over a week now. It's very frustrating after having had it working succdessfully for over two years and my ISP is not very helpful in resolving the issue.

i tried to findout and kill mDNSResponder but i couldn't find it in the activity monitor... the internet is working properly in my dad's alienware... but not in my macbookpro. this is soo frustrating. please help me out.

feel free to ask me any questions regarding my settings

i tried to findout and kill mDNSResponder but i couldn't find it in the activity monitor... even safeboot couldn't help me. the internet is working properly in my dad's alienware... but not in my macbookpro. this is soo frustrating. please help me out.

feel free to ask me any questions regarding my settings

Hi,

Load up Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app) and type the following.

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

To turn it back on, just do the opposite:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist

Hope that helps