[cbk1994]

EDIT: This is no longer happening for some reason. Right after posting, it now works.

Feel free to delete this post.

For some reason, I can't load Google. Last night, it started out that I couldn't load any subdomains-mail.google.com, news.google.com, etc. Now, however, I can't even load google.com

I can load all of these pages on another computer on the network, and even on this computer running Windows via Boot Camp.

I checked my hosts file, and there is nothing suspicious in there.

Code:
##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1	localhost
255.255.255.255	broadcasthost
::1             localhost 
fe80::1%lo0	localhost

I've tried switching DNS (switching from OpenDNS to my ISP's DNS servers), but it does no good.

In Safari, I get the error message "Safari can’t open the page “http://google.com/” because it could not connect to the server “google.com”."

Google also does not work in Firefox.

I've tried clearing my browser's cache, to no avail. If you've got any ideas, please tell me. I can't live like this!

[ghporter]

I'm going to leave this here in case someone comes up with why it presented itself in the first place. It's awfully odd, and I'd like to know why it happened too.

[ibook_steve]

So every other web site worked except Google?

Steve

[Cold Warrior]

Could have been just a cached DNS problem on your machine. Next time you can flush your computer's DNS cache. Google for it and you can find a page with the right terminal command and option, which depend on your OS X version (Tiger, Leopard).