Connection to Pricewatch.com not happening
Ray Parrish
crp at cmc.net
Fri Nov 6 02:54:32 UTC 2009
Fred Roller wrote:
> Ray Parrish wrote:
>
>> NoOp wrote:
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>>> 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:
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>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>> 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
>
Here is the output from traceroute
ray at RaysComputer:~$ traceroute 174.129.37.55
traceroute to 174.129.37.55 (174.129.37.55), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 * * *
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30 * * *
Not much to go on there.
Later, Ray Parrish
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