Connection to Pricewatch.com not happening

[Fred Roller]

Ray Parrish wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>   
>> On 11/05/2009 03:53 PM, Ray Parrish wrote:
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>>     
>>> Steve wrote:
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>>>       
>>>> 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
>
>   
Try:

    traceroute 174.129.37.55

and see where it is dying.  You may need to install it:

    sudo apt-get install traceroute

-- 
Fred
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"Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something wrong."