This is a strange one that I cannot really pin down... is it my system? or is it my ISP? I think it's my ISP, but proving it is a bit hard. - Periodically (over the last 2 or 3 months), but with no fixed or at least identifiable pattern, I loose the ability to resolve URLs. If I open any installed browser (Firefox, Opera, Seamonkey etc) and browse to any random website, say.. YouTube, generally it opens immediately. But.. sometimes, I get nothing. Firefox will timeout at some point and tell me that the website is unreachable etc etc. Reloading during this timeout period does nothing. - When this problem pops up, all other web services continue to work fine... Torrents continue to download, FTP works fine, VoIP works perfectly... only resolving URLs fails. - The dropout lasts anywhere from a few seconds, to several minutes... and then when connectivity returns, it can continue to work for sometime hours.. and other times it'll drop off again right away. If I connect to one of my VPNs - my work VPN or my private one (a VPN service I subscribe to), I do not get any dropouts at all.. HTTP always works. This is what makes me think it's my ISP not me. So.... how do you go about showing that it's the ISP? I've contacted the ISP, and they say it's me... although they have provided me their DNS server addresses... they still think the problem is my side not theirs. Any ideas or suggestions? Could it be my side? if so, what can I look at to track it down? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org