Connection to Pricewatch.com not happening

[NoOp]

On 11/06/2009 03:40 PM, Ray Parrish wrote:
> NoOp wrote:
>> On 11/05/2009 03:19 PM, Ray Parrish wrote: ...
>> 
>>> I'm on Hardy Heron with the latest kernel update, and Firefox is
>>> right up to date as well. I have also looked in my hosts file to
>>> insure that it's not blocked there, and the closest I could find
>>> was pricegrabber.com so it's not the hosts file.
>>> 
>> 
>> is amazonaws.com in there?
>> 
>> $ host www.pricewatch.com www.pricewatch.com is an alias for 
>> www-pricewatch-com-279321694.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com
>> 
> Yes it was in there, but after commenting it out, and saving the file
> I still cannot connect.

Did you check to see if it's also in /etc/hosts.deny?

You might try restarting networking (sudo /etc/init.d/networking
restart) and/or logging out & then back in. You know:

$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost <user>
127.0.1.1 <user>

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

Check your /etc/resolv.conf. Do you use a dns service that might be
blocking the site (something like opendns), or are you using your isp's
default dns servers (206.192.230.250)?
http://www.robtex.com/dns/cmc.net.html
or qwest.nets
http://www.robtex.com/dns/qwest.net.html
or
DNS (Domain Name Servers): 12.33.21.1 and 12.33.21.2
[http://www.cmc.net/setup.html]

...
> 
> I also tried the Seamonkey browser, but will go ahead and try
> Epiphany, and Opera as well just to eliminate the Mozilla
> connection.

I doubt those will work as well as it sounds to me like a hosts issue.
You could try creating just a vanilla default /etc/hosts file (rename
your old one to something else).
> 
> I noted in another email that I can connect no problem if I reboot to
> Windows XP, so it's a Ubuntu problem somewhere.

Agree. But not much else that I can think of just now.