linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: can't get certain websites

Have you tried taking one of your laptops elsewhere to see if it can find the sites via Live CD, etc.? At least that would rule out .CA being blocked in total. Have you called your ISP to see if they had any DNS issues or something?
On your Windows computer, could you run a Live CD that checks for malware? I was surprised when I added the Yahoo Toolbar's CA scanner it found stuff. Another time, I ran the Bit-Defender extension for Chrome and Firefox and it found some stuff.
I suppose you tried using your Web browsers without extensions, too.
Just trying to help,Joan in Reno

--- On Wed, 2/16/11, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: can't get certain websites
To: LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 7:19 PM

I am still trying to figure this out. I have tried a proxy with no luck. I
have tor, vidalia and polipo working. I can get other sites with it, but it
does not work with these three sites.*

Using a proxy:
504 Host phoronix.com lookup failed: Permanent name server failure*

Same for the other two.

Pinging:
ping -c 4 guardian.co.uk
PING guardian.co.uk (77.91.248.30) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- guardian.co.uk ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3014ms

ping -c 4 phoronix.com
ping: unknown host phoronix.com

ping -c 4 unixmen.com
ping: unknown host unixmen.com

Traceroute:

traceroute guardian.co.uk
traceroute to guardian.co.uk (77.91.249.30), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1) 5.333 ms 5.592 ms 5.870 ms
2 dsldevice.lan (192.168.1.254) 15.537 ms 15.067 ms 14.590 ms
3 dsl-173-206-64-1.tor.primus.ca (173.206.64.1) 23.907 ms 26.360 ms
31.020 ms
4 216.254.131.133 (216.254.131.133) 72.419 ms 73.105 ms 74.098 ms
5 gw-nyiix.bb1.eastyork.primus.ca (198.32.160.89) 56.322 ms 60.642 ms
64.861 ms
6 gi3-0.nyc-002-inter-1.interoute.net (198.32.160.102) 79.972 ms 152.539
ms 35.710 ms
7 Gi7-0.nyc-002-access-1.interoute.net (212.23.43.137) 105.362 ms
109.357 ms 113.212 ms
8 PO4-0.lon-004-access-1.interoute.net (212.23.43.150) 115.880 ms
119.835 ms 128.705 ms
9 dc-server-13.adam.psi.com (195.81.245.13) 139.647 ms 148.672 ms
154.622 ms
10 195.81.242.238 (195.81.242.238) 159.565 ms 162.425 ms 166.089 ms
11 77.91.255.142 (77.91.255.142) 175.065 ms 178.020 ms 184.272 ms
12 77.91.255.146 (77.91.255.146) 152.471 ms 100.999 ms 103.075 ms
13 77.91.255.202 (77.91.255.202) 106.412 ms 111.336 ms 114.381 ms
14 * * *
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29 * * *
30 * * *

For what it is worth, unixmen and phoronix are both registered with GoDaddy.
I can't get anything on Guardian, but doubt it is GoDaddy.

I hope that someone can make sense of this cause I can't.

Roy

Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada

On 16 February 2011 14:48, Chris Becker <usabecker@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> If pinging the site from the CLI is unsuccessful, it might be worth
> trying to access the sites from a proxy on the web to act like you are
> in a different location. There was a forum I visited regularly that
> went down once, but only for some users. Somehow they had two IP
> addresses for the same Domain name, and ... location had something to
> do with it. OK, I wasn't bright enough to understand the explanation
> back then, so no use trying to explain it now. But the end result was
> using a proxy (or using the "good" IP address directly in the address
> bar) worked until they resolved the issue.
>
> Even though Google didn't reveal any other complaints of similar
> issues for those sites when I just checked, It could be worth a try.
> Here was one blog post talking about using a proxy server, if you want
> to try:
>
> http://blog.davidaugust.com/2008/08/use-proxy-to-change-internet-location.html
> There's probably better ones, though...
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I thought at first that I had set my FF settings so that it did not allow
> > enough time, but Phoronix and Guardian links come up immediately with the
> > error message. Unixmen does take a bit, but eventually comes up with the
> > same error. Then I tried it in Chromium with the same result. Then I
> tried
> > Safari in Wine. Same. Then I tried FF in XP VM. Same. I went to my wife's
> > computer with Mint 10 and XP. Same result there. Lastly I tried my
> netbook
> > with Ubuntu 10.10 and XP. Got nowhere.
> >
> > I think that it must be my ISP. I am still looking into that. It can't be
> my
> > computer when I have tried three computers, three different OSes and
> several
> > browsers all with the same result. I have a neighbour with an insecure
> > connection, but his signal is weak today. When it picks up I will try his
> > internet which uses a different provider. If it does not work there, then
> I
> > am flummoxed.
>
> >
> > Roy
> >
> > Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
> > Location: Canada
> >
>
>

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