Solved Page Fails to Load on BBC

[Pesala]

Intermittent error: this site cannot be reached message when clicking links on the https://www.bbc.co.uk/ website.

The page always loads a second or two after the message appears.

This setting is disabled:

DNS to help resolve navigation errors

What are the privacy implications of enabling this setting?

[Pesala]

I have not seen this issue again for a while. Maybe it was fixed by some change in updates, or the Russians are too busy to harass the BBC at the moment.

[DoctorG]

@Pesala Seems bbc.co.uk is for UK only?
Bad geoblock, i always get rediercted to bbc.com
But all links load.

[TbGbe]

@Pesala Is it only iPlayer links which fail for you (requires "sign in")?

News etc. works fine for me.

[Pesala]

@TbGbe No, not only iPlayer links. That was the first one that I was quick enough to capture.

[DoctorG]

@Pesala Use of VPN, proxy, user-defined/Secure DNS?

[Catweazle]

@Pesala , https://www.bbc.co.uk loads fine and fast for me, I use Quad9 DNS and DNScrypt systemwide, no VPN and no special Vivaldi settings

[Pesala]

@DoctorG None that I know of. The problem is recent, since a few Snapshots ago.

[Priest72]

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[JacobDavis]

This is indeed strange, can you access this page if you are using incognito mode in another browser?

[Pesala]

@JacobDavis I can access the pages in a regular window, but the error message sometimes appears for a second or two.

Unless I use a New Private Window all day, I might not be able to reproduce it.

[Pesala]

Still happening. Here is another screenshot.

[Catweazle]

@Pesala Maybe an DNS problem ????
No problems here (Quad9 DNS)

[Pesala]

@Catweazle I have since enabled the setting:

DNS to Help Resolve Navigation Errors

However, I still see the error.

[Catweazle]

@Pesala , no the settings of Vivaldi, the used DNS in your system network settings. If your used DNS can't resolve the direction, Vivaldi can't change this

[Mrchriz82]

I don't think this is a Vivaldi problem. I'm seeing the same in Chrome specifically the BBC site. It seems to redirect to the correct page after a few seconds here. I'm on now broadband in the UK and haven't played with DNS as yet. This thread came up when I Google searched for the issue so thought I'd mention my experience.

[Pesala]

@Mrchriz82 Thanks for the reply. I think we can blame it on the Russians. They may be launching Denial of Service attacks.

[Pesala]

Still happening

[mib2berlin]

@Pesala
Hi, all links open immediately for me, even I set my VPN location to the UK.
The page switch to https://www.bbc.com if I open the link of your first post not https://www.bbc.co.uk

Cheers, mib

[Pathduck]

From what I understand ERR_FAILED means the connection fails early on, during network socket creation, before DNS resolve and TCP setup. So most likely candidate then is something on the local system aborting connections before they get an further, like a local VPN/Proxy or similar, possibly an AV/security solution.

You mentioned custom DNS and using DNSCrypt. Do you get the same errors if these are turned off? I.e. turn off DoH and turn off DNSCrypt.

Also, keep the devtools open while testing, and when it fails, do you see anything in the network log or console?

[Pesala]

@Pathduck Earlier, I enabled it to see if it would help:

DNS to Help Resolve Navigation Errors

It made no difference, so I disabled it again. I have re-enabled it again, and will see if the error recurs.