Connection to Pricewatch.com not happening

[Ray Parrish]

Fred Roller wrote:
> Ray Parrish wrote:
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>> 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,
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>> Hello,
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>>>> I tired the ip address, and no luck. I also installed Seamonkey and gave 
>>>> it a try with no luck.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> Later, Ray Parrish
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>>> That indicates to me that you have another issue. "I checked my
>>> firewall" - turn your firewall off and check again.
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>> Hello again,
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>> I turned Firestarter completely off, and I am still not able to load 
>> pricewatch.com
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>> Later, Ray Parrish
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> Try:
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>     traceroute 174.129.37.55
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> and see where it is dying.  You may need to install it:
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>     sudo apt-get install traceroute
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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
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Not much to go on there.

Later, Ray Parrish

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