DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE

Description

I can’t for the end of me find out anything more about this. Whatever site I try to reach, it always says “this site can’t be reached” with an errror DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE. For e.g. google.com it also says “google.com’s DNS address could not be found. Diagnosing the problem.”. Firefox work, qutebrowser works, pinging 8.8.8.8 works, pinging google.com works, chatting on Messenger (desktop app) works, but browsing sites doesn’t. I tried disabling extensions, resetting settings to defaults, completely wiping the application and reinstalling 3 times, but it doesn’t help (somehow, Brave still remembers my open sites through those reinstalls??). If I find out IP adress of google.com through the dig command for example, and paste that adress into Brave, it will instantly change to google.com and the DNS_PROBE_POSSIBLE error. I don’t know if it is related, but I flushed dns cache recently, changed the hostname of my PC too. But again, other browser works.

Steps to Reproduce

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Actual result:

Expected result:

Actually being able to browse.

Reproduces how often:

???

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.22.71 Chromium: 89.0.4389.114 (Official Build) (x86_64)
Revision	1ea76e193b4fadb723bfea2a19a66c93a1bc0ca6-refs/branch-heads/4389@{#1616}
OS	macOS Version 10.14.6 (Build 18G8022)
JavaScript	V8 8.9.255.24
User agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.114 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser -psn_0_12229545 --enable-dom-distiller --disable-domain-reliability --no-pings --extension-content-verification=enforce_strict --extensions-install-verification=enforce --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --sync-url=https://sync-v2.brave.com/v2 --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --enable-features=PasswordImport,ReducedReferrerGranularity,WebUIDarkMode,SafetyTip,AutoupgradeMixedContent,PrefetchPrivacyChanges,LegacyTLSEnforced --disable-features=TextFragmentAnchor,TabHoverCards,AutofillServerCommunication,DirectSockets,SubresourceWebBundles,SignedExchangePrefetchCacheForNavigations,AutofillEnableAccountWalletStorage,WebOTP,NotificationTriggers,LangClientHintHeader,NetworkTimeServiceQuerying,SafeBrowsingEnhancedProtection,SignedExchangeSubresourcePrefetch,PrivacySettingsRedesign,IdleDetection,SafeBrowsingEnhancedProtectionMessageInInterstitials --flag-switches-begin --load-media-router-component-extension=0 --flag-switches-end
Executable Path	/Applications/Brave Browser.app/Contents/MacOS/Brave Browser
Profile Path	/Users/jim/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware/Brave-Browser/Default
Variations	7146a73c-3f4a17df

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? Don’t know.
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel? Don’t know.
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel? Don’t know.

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields? No.
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards? No.
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome? Don’t know.

Miscellaneous Information:

[KamuelaFranco]

nvm fixed it

Haha, great, how did you fix it?

Update: I’ve managed to fix it by playing with Settings -> Privacy and security -> Security -> Use secure DNS. Try toggling that on and off and changing the service provider you use.

[jimrs]

nvm fixed it