How to fix the ‘resolving host’ error in Windows when trying to access a website

Currently the internet is widely used to investigate, watch videos or carry out bank transactions and endless activities. But it is common that sometimes the pages we are looking for do not load, such as when the message “Resolving host” appears.

Most of the time when this message appears, access to the requested website is not allowed, since a DNS server is required. For this reason we will help you in this article how to fix the resolving host error in your browser once and for all. But first, we will explain what the computer host is and what functions it provides to the user who uses a computer.

What is a Host in networks?

A host is any computer connected to a network via a defined domain and IP number. With the aim of providing resources, information and services to users, such as the internet, which transmits data through the web. However, this could sometimes prevent you from accessing a web page, and the message “Resolving Host” appears, which in the end does not open.

Check the DNS server

Next, we want to show you how to solve the problem of resolving host by checking if there is a DNS server change.

1. Enter Windows “Settings” by pressing the Windows + I keys.
2. Open the “Network and Internet” option.
3. In the “Status” window at the bottom there is an option called “Change adapter options”.
4. Now right click on the network you are using and press the “Properties” option.
5. It will then open the Internet Protocol version 4 (TCP/IPv4) and Properties.
6. Check the “Use the following DNS server addresses” option.
7. Now fill in the two boxes that appear.

In this way, the best DNS servers are checked and the problem that occurs when we want to access a web page is solved.

Clear the DNS cache in Windows and in the browser

If the previous option does not work, we will try to clear the DNS cache, that is, clear all the cache that the system saves, such as the browser. This process is applied because normally the resolving host message appears when we visit the same web page in our browser.

Clear DNS cache in Windows.

1. You will enter the “Command Prompt” by pressing the Windows + R keys and this will open a window called “Run”, type the word “cmd” and press “OK”.
2. Once you are at the command prompt you will type the following command ipconfig/flushdns.
3. After applying the command, a message will appear explaining that the DNS resolution has been successfully cleaned.

In this way you would be deleting the cache that is registered in the Windows system, we recommend applying the command as we wrote it.

Clear the DNS cache of the Google Chrome browser.

Chrome is the most used browser in the world and there is also the possibility that it accumulates the cache, and then we explain how to delete it.

1. Access the Chrome browser.
2. Type in the address bar chrome://net-internals/#dns and press enter.
3. Subsequently, a window will open where the table of equivalences between the IPs and the names of the web pages you visit appears.
4. At the top there is a button called “clear host cache”, you will click on it to clear the DNS cache in your Google Chrome browser.

Clear DNS cache in Firefox browser.

If you use the Firefox browser, the process is different, with this we must apply a different action so that it forgets the stored cache.

1. Enter the Firefox browser.
2. Type in the address bar about:config and press enter.
3. Opening a new window will look for an entry called network.dnsCacheExpiration and click on it.
4. Now you’ll set its value to 0, so that Firefox ignores the DNS cache when accessing a web page.

Finally by executing the above steps the “Resolving host” problem will be solved both in the Windows operating system and in the web browser.

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