Safari cannot find server-any other browser can

Recently Safari started telling me that it cannot load webpages because the server cannot be found. Any other browser can load these pages correctly.
The webpages that Safari picks out are completely random and change from day to day.

I had the same problem, made a little search and found that there are some problems with DNS on leopard if you´re interested to know a little try this page:
http://blog.jungledisk.com/2007/10/31/leopard-dns-issues-and-work-around/
changing the DNS helped me a lot so try this to have a better way to improve your safari experience:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070416000657464
hope this will help you

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