the remote name could not be resolved 'www.nuget.org'

Question

Just recently I am having trouble accessing the nuget.org website and using the Package manager inside of Visual Studio 2012. In fact just yesterday evening when I attempted to install some packages I encountered the above error. In addition I can not access www.nuget.org from any of my web browsers or my iPad on the same network.

As far as I am aware no changes have taken place on my network. I attempted to navigate to www.nuget.org through a proxy and it did load. So I can only assume there is a problem with my network/IP.

Has anyone ever encountered this problem?

Answer 1

The problem here is probably the DNS provider, to test try to extract the ip address of www.nuget.org (I did that for you, it is http://65.52.233.252/), try to connect from your browser with the ip address without proxy, if it works the your dns provider has an issue,

you can have a quick solution and use OpenDNS by entring there ip address in you dns configuration,