Which version of Firefox are you using - IF you are using FF?
Firefox 3.5.3 as well as Seamonkey (latest) and others. It doesn't seem to be related directly to the browser.
I still have to spend some time trying some of the recent suggestions.
When this problem hits, it only seems to affect loading webpages in any browser... like port 80 was briefly closed or something.
So when you encounter this problem and you open a shell and do a DNS lookup with dig, it works?
OK, just had it happen again. As soon as I had the dropout (while using Firefox), I started up SeaMonkey and tried browsing to several sites... the same there.. no connectivity. I opened a terminal and did a ======================== dig google.com ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0-P2 <<>> google.com ;; global options: printcmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached ======================== I think the lack of connectivity to the router was a coincidence, as in the last 3 outages, I was able to contact the router directly via 192.168.1.1 and log into the router. After connectivity returned, dig google.com returned a "normal" result with details of the lookup. Through this outage, I was on a Skype call which was no interrupted, I was playing an online MMORPG game (very sensitive to network latency and timeouts/disconnects), I had a Torrent downloading/uploading, IRC (using Konversation) was not interrupted, and other services like Pidgin did not disconnect/reconnect. This only affected browsing to websites, and was duplicatable in more than one browser (ie not restricted to just FireFox). Next outage, I will also try to test in Konqueror and Opera as well. Oh, I also have a KDE4 widget that pings a few predefined websites every 2 minutes, and it also errors out when connectivity drops (ie it cannot ping the configured webservers, pinging on URL not IP address). I still have to properly test browsing direct to a IP instead of a URL on the next outage. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org