WiFi issues

[Afranqui]

Today all of the sudden I was having issues accessing the internet. All of my chrome tabs would say "Dns probe finished bad config". I was able to access google through my phone and found tutorials where people go into their network settings under the IPv4 and manually set their DNS to 8,8,8,8. 

This is the video I watched. 

  It worked for my desktop which is great. However no other devices(all of our phones and all of our MacBooks) can not access the internet still. Can anyone tell me what happened and how to fix it? 

[sushisharkjl]

1 minute ago, Afranqui said:

Today all of the sudden I was having issues accessing the internet. All of my chrome tabs would say "Dns probe finished bad config". I was able to access google through my phone and found tutorials where people go into their network settings under the IPv4 and manually set their DNS to 8,8,8,8. 

This is the video I watched. 

  It worked for my desktop which is great. However no other devices(all of our phones and all of our MacBooks) can not access the internet still. Can anyone tell me what happened and how to fix it? 

Your current DNS server (ISP-provided or router) is down. Either wait for it to come back up/call your ISP and yell at them or swich everything to Google DNS.

 

On Macbooks, go to sys pref > network > advanced > DNS

On iPhones (and Androids to some extent), settings > wifi > "i" symbol > DNS

[Guest]

What DNS is your router set to use? By default, most PC's will get their DNS settings automatically from the DHCP server/gateway.

[paddy-stone]

Or just go into your router's settings and set the DNS in there, that way ALL traffic that goes through the router inc phones/macs etc will be using google's DNS servers - unless of course they have the device set to over-ride the DNS settings themselves (which is what you did above to set your device settinsg to the google DNS servers)