It may have kept you busy long enough for whatever the real problem in the network or website was to have been fixed. Placebo effect. If you were unable to get to any website then the problem could have been in your set up or with your ISP. Beyond local, a website could be undergoing a denial of service attack and not all of your requests could be served. Rebooting your machine would do nothing to fix a DOS against some other web server. But if things worked afterwards, you might assume that was the cure.
On Thu, 17 May 2007 08:32:03 -0500, David Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I re-booted the modem, router, and PC. Guess something had changed. Router supposedly has a built in firewall, but I don't understand how it would have let me get to some pages, and not others. Anyway, thanks all who responded for the help. > > --Dave Day > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
