I've had shit internet for years (Thanks Malcolm!), so I've been unable to do anything that would require me to mask my IP. Sadly I'm not up on what the best apps to do that these days are :P

Best bet for any IT related advice is to ask a tech forum (unsurprisingly, you're more likely to find knowledgeable users there than on a football forum :P). The Whirlpool Forums were a good bet back in the day for pretty much all hardware and software related queries. Of course, if you're using IP masking for less-than-proper reasons they are probably less inclined to help you. Best to go with a plausible cover story such as "I am being geoblocked out of sports livestreams that I can't otherwise watch, can you recommend an app or plugin that will get around this?"

What beer do you use PB? I once used Coopers Sparkling and it was fucking ace.

Thanks mate. Really great advice. Any ideas or suggestions with regards to the bold?

Your router is different to the DNS. A DNS (Domain Name System) is basically the internet equivalent of a phone book that maps a domain name (www.google.com) to a machine readable address (74.125.237.178). Most people will use a DNS hosted by their ISP (Internet Service Provider), but some will use a third party DNS for the purposes of VPN or location masking.

Your computer will not query the DNS every time you go to a website, this would be both slow and a waste of resources since these tables very rarely change! Instead, it will keep a local (referred to as cached) version of addresses it knows and use that to visit sites you have previously been to. It will then periodically check that this information is still correct. Sometimes it is out of date, but usually the update window is small enough that potential problems never get noticed by the user.

You can force your local cache to refresh itself from the DNS by flushing it, which may fix your problem, by opening terminal and typing dscacheutil -flushcache (or, if you are on OSX 10.4 or below, lookupd -flushcache ). It seems, though, far more likely that it's a server side DNS problem rather than a caching problem. Reading up on ZenMate, its primary benefit is that it acts as an intermediary between yourself and the Google public DNS, to stop anyone identifying you via IP (instead it only sees the ZenMate IP.) My gut instinct (in tech nerd terms) is they have synchronisation issues with the Google API and that's resulting in dropped/timed out DNS requests. Unfortunately there is nothing you as a client side user can do about that other than report it to the developers as an issue and hope they optimise their code. Beyond that, find a new way to mask your IP on the web.

I know a good batter recipe

Probably wouldn't hurt to run MalwareBytes Anti-Malware as well.
I've seen malware attempt to change/redirect internet settings at times.

Yeah. Was working perfectly up until yesterday when it seems to be cause of this problem.

Is ZenMate good Zim?

whats your calamari recipe?????

batter??

I only know fish and chip recipes sorry :(

-PB

DNS server is im assuming the router address. Usual 192.168.0.1

Flush out you mean just on my broswer?

Obvious would be to have a flush out and see what happens, ie: all your cache & cookies and also reset your router. Sounds silly when people say it, but it's such a commonly suggested thing because it works 98% of the time.

What are your DNS set to?

Go to Settings -> Network
Select your network from the left list
Advanced -> DNS

Damnit. ZenMate was working well. Any other Vpn ideas?

Try turning it off and see if the problem persists.

You have a dns issue, it's just about finding where the issue is.

It's entirely possible that your ISP is having problems, or you're using outdated dns addresses, but ZenMate is more likely.

I am using ZenMate. It's a chrome extension. I have been using it for a few months now but this problem has only been happening since last night.

Have you tried turning it on and off again?

Have you been using a VPN or dns system to watch geolocked things?

So the past couple of days whenever i try to access my normal websites i keep getting this error page coming up. Its frustrating because i dont know what it is, and when i google search, it seems to suggest that i am getting the problem because i own a website or something which i dont. It just happens with random websites. One minute the website works, next minute i get this crap. Problem does not happen in incognito.