Accessing internet with firefox
James Takac
p3nndrag0n at gmail.com
Fri Aug 24 05:06:41 UTC 2007
On Friday 24 August 2007 14:28:51 yair hougui wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I just installed ubuntu and I am trying to access the internet with
> firefox. I manage to access several sites but others I cannot.
> For example I manage to access google but cannot load pages like Yahoo and
> CNN.
>
> I already set the DNS servers and disabled ipv6 on my firefox browser. Also
> tried to reduce the MTU from 1500 to 1492 as someone suggested in the
> mailing list.
>
> Is there something else that can be done to try solving the problem?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Yair
Hi Yair
Are you using a proxy or a direct connection to the net? You can get similar
via some proxies as some will block certain sites and some sites will block
certain ip ranges which a given proxy may fall into. If using a proxy, maybe
worth trying another one
James
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