Apple Airport Extreme Utility showing internet as "Yellow" but able to VPN

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I'm at work and I'm able to Real VNC into my home Mac. However, other than the fact that I can use the virtual desktop, the laptop is acting as if the internet isn't working, e.g. my Plex server can't be connected to and the Airport Extreme utility shows the "Internet" cloud to be yellow/orange meaning there's no connection...but that's impossible since I am currently VNC'd into the laptop.

Any idea how to resolve this? Since I'm not home I obviously can't unplug the router and plug it back in.
Open the terminal and try some DNS lookups with the dig command or nslookup. If that fails the router is probably crapping out on its built in DNS server. I would imagine you can reboot the router using the airport config tool, even if you have to make some slight change to it to do so. Like maybe change the DHCP pool size or something.

Or just set your computer to use Google DNS servers manually or similar.
Apparently the Comcast DNS is down
Saint wrote:
Apparently the Comcast DNS is down

Change the host setting to use goog, and
Done and that fixed everything. Couldn't figure out why Plex stopped working, turns out it had nothing to do with it.
Were the old DNS servers and
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