Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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

 

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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