While this issue is sad I am still so happy to see someone else having this issue and it is not just me. Like you I have searched everywhere and have not been able to find anyone else having this issue. Are you using Chrome/Chromium? I was using Chromium at first but when the issue started I switched to Chrome which did also have the same problem. I have not tried using Firefox for an extended amount of time to see if that also has this. If I kill all instances of Chrome/Chromium it will connect to google again but after a few hours the issue comes back where it will not search/connect to google.com. You do have to make sure you kill all instances of chrome/chromium for that temporary fix to work. On a permanent fix I have no idea at this point.

On 5/13/17 12:40 PM, Brian OKeefe wrote:

Hi all. Sorry to have missed meetings and not been in contact so it's a bit awkward asking for help. But I will!
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 on an acer laptop. Until a few weeks ago all things google worked fine and it was my primary search engine. It started slowing down trying to connect to google.com, www.google.com, http://www.google....you get the idea. Eventually, about 2 weeks ago it just stopped connecting at all. So:

I checked every forum and help page I could find. I changed DNS servers to open DNS, googleDNS, changed all configuration files to reflect those changes, many command line instructions and on and on. None of the Solved marked issues solved my problem even though the symptoms were the same.
I run 2 VMs, Ubuntu 16.10 and FreeBSD. Both of those machines can use google as normal. that seems weird to me.
I can load something like groups.google.com and then chose apps like gmail, drive, photos and several others but not calendar or maps (which is what I really want). I can use all those apps on the VMs though.
In 16.04 no browser loads google. com
I can ping google.com with no packet loss.
I'm stumped.
Help?

Thanks

Brian

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