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?

Solution

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,