Connection to Pricewatch.com not happening

Ray Parrish crp at cmc.net
Fri Nov 6 01:50:45 UTC 2009


NoOp wrote:
> On 11/05/2009 03:53 PM, Ray Parrish wrote:
>   
>> Steve wrote:
>>     
>>> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:35:47 -0000, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> For some reason Firefox will no longer load http://www.pricewatch.com on
>>>> my Ubuntu machine. It just sits there with the busy cursor displayed
>>>> spinning away, and the page never loads.
>>>>
>>>> I checked with is it just me or is it everyone, and that site says that
>>>> http://pricewatch.com is up and running so it is just me.
>>>>
>>>> I checked my firewall, and made sure that all rules excluding ip
>>>> addresses as hosts were removed, and price watch still will not load.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know where else I might look as Price Watch is one of my
>>>> favorite computer parts shopping sites.
>>>>
>>>> Later, Ray Parrish
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Ihe sites ip is 174.129.37.55 try that.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hello,
>>
>> I tired the ip address, and no luck. I also installed Seamonkey and gave 
>> it a try with no luck.
>>
>> I rebooted to Windows XP, and Firefox in XP connects, and browses the 
>> site just fine, so it's evidently something with my Ubuntu configuration 
>> that is blocking my connection to Price Watch.
>>
>> Later, Ray Parrish
>>
>>     
>
> That indicates to me that you have another issue. "I checked my
> firewall" - turn your firewall off and check again.
>   
Hello again,

I turned Firestarter completely off, and I am still not able to load 
pricewatch.com

Later, Ray Parrish

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