Websites barred

I have had BT Infinity for a few months. Its speed has once suddenly dropped - and the support people suggested that I pull and reinstate the power to both the units. This fixed that problem. Anyway, the question I have is why the other day should my BT router be responsible for barring a group of websites all hosted by the one company?
One day without notice I found that I could not access either of my own two websites nor one hosted by the same company but operated by someone else. No other websites were barred as far as I know.
Reporting this to the hosting company as a server fault proved that all was supposedly well and access through a proxy site worked too.
In the end a similar restart (power down and up) of the router sorted it all.
The question I have, is why?

It would have been a glitch on the DNS lokup, used to convert domain names to IP addresses. Routers (such as the Home Hub) tend to remember the results of DNS searches for a while. So if it fails once, then it will keep failing. Rebooting the Home Hub will clear the cache and force the Home Hub to do the search again.

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