My mac is lying to me

I keep getting arbitrary messages like:
+You are not connected to the Internet. Safari can’t open the page “https://www.amazon.com” because your computer isn’t connected to the Internet+
But it IS connected, because I'll have another window or tab open at the time and be surfing just fine. I'll refresh the errant page, but no luck it directs me to the Network Diagnostic and I click through it's screens and sometimes it fixes things, other times not. I've noticed it mostly on Amazon.com pages and Apple.com pages and it's completely inconsistent. And I know it's my Mac and not my service provider because my PC on the same router is having none of these issues.
Any suggestions would be appreciated,
Thanks,
Dan P.

Try putting in the numbers Sig suggested, it's what the OS uses to lookup apple.com and find it's real address like 17.254.3.183
You can always just put the old ones back if you write them down first.

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