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Microsoft webpage opens as blank page

This one is really weird and complicated to explain. Last Thursday I picked up a Surface for our PR department and I was setting it up. I was trying to download Framework 2.0 for Remote Manager and the page wouldn’t load. I went to my computer and tried to go to www.microsoft.com and the page kind of loads. It appears to resolve and load even with a scroll bar but the page is blank. I could go to the ip address of Microsoft and the page would load just fine which says DNS issue to me. I can reboot my computer and get the page display once but then at refresh never again. I can change the DNS on my computer to point directly to TW (Time Warner my service provider), and google dns and it doesn’t work. I connected my computer directly to the TW router with TW DNS and live IP and I could get the website to load. I brought my computer back to my network which my computer just gets DHCP from the router. The router has our two DC’s and one of the TW as DNS in the router. This is what it serves as DHCP. If I change my DNS to our router IP address then I can display the webpage. At first this is telling me that it’s our DNS servers except that they point to TW when they can’t resolve of which when I connect to TW live it works. Then the fact that it works when I direct my DNS to our router is confusing because the router points to our DC’s first before TW. The thing is that it is resolving but not loading. When I switch DNS you can see the website flash then go white. When I log into both DC’s and try to visit the website they load just fine and they point at themselves first then the other DC. However when I go on our new Terminal Server it does not work and it points to our DC's. In general if it was just my computer I would stop there but it’s the same on our phones so that rules out virus scanners and it just being localized. Other IT personnel said today he had a similar problem with the HP site when downloading drivers.

What I have done thus far: Rebooted both TW router and our router. I flushed DNS on both DC’s. Rebooted my PC and was able to get to website but then refresh and just a white page. I don’t know if this is a caching issue but clearing my local cache does not fix it and my phone had issues the first time trying to visit the site. It’s weird that even putting in DNS to go around our DC’s still doesn’t work which made me think it was the router and rebooting it may fix it. However pointing DNS at the router does fix it. Found some people talking about disabling DNS client service and it working for them but it didn’t for me.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,
Rob
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Is the router updated with latest firmware?
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Found it in another community that isn't going to charge me $29/month. A community that helped within minutes instead of never getting a reply within 12 hours. I think the exchange is getting a little premature on increasing it's value.