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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/18/2014 11:07 AM, Bill Stanley
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:549309BA.3000907@wowway.com" type="cite"><snip
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi Wade,
<br>
<br>
As I mentioned before, I am using Firefox 30. I recently
installed
<br>
Chromium and the same problem affects both Firefox and
Chromium. It
<br>
seems to be a operating system problem and not a problem
specific to
<br>
Firefox. What would be blocking these two (and maybe more)
websites
<br>
but allows other websites to run properly?
<br>
<br>
I am going to try other web browsers to see if they are
affected as well.
<br>
<br>
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It sounds as if it might be some sort of DNS problem.
<br>
<br>
What happens if you try 'host bbc.com' on the command line (or
<br>
whatever the site that was causing you problems).
<br>
<br>
<br>
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WS=> When I investigate the problem further is seems that FF
is"freezing" on two web-pages. Looking at the status line of FF
(bottom of the screen) I see "Connecting to static.bbci.co.uk" or
"Connecting to node1.bbcimg.co.uk". I do not get a timeout on the
connection either, it just stops when it gets to either of these
two pages. Also, from watching the status line, I can see that
bbc.com loads and then transferees control to either of these two
web-pages.
<br>
<br>
I have temporarily disabled all of the FF add-ons and I still get
this problem so it does not seem to be add-on related.
<br>
<br>
. Now that I think about it, I did get a popup message about the
version of Adobe Flash being out of date. Since Adobe has
discontinued support for Linux, I ignored the message because
there was nothing that I could do about that. Could this be the
problem?
<br>
<br>
The output of hosts is as follows, I don't think it is a DNS
problem.
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<br>
$ host bbc.com
<br>
bbc.com has address 212.58.246.103
<br>
bbc.com has address 212.58.244.18
<br>
bbc.com has address 212.58.244.20
<br>
bbc.com has address 212.58.246.104
<br>
bbc.com mail is handled by 10 cluster8.eu.messagelabs.com.
<br>
bbc.com mail is handled by 20 cluster8a.eu.messagelabs.com.
<br>
<br>
<br>
$ host static.bbci.co.uk
<br>
static.bbci.co.uk is an alias for static-bbci.bbc.net.uk.
<br>
static-bbci.bbc.net.uk is an alias for
static.bbci.co.uk.edgesuite.net.
<br>
static.bbci.co.uk.edgesuite.net is an alias for
a1638.g.akamai.net.
<br>
a1638.g.akamai.net has address 69.47.66.136
<br>
a1638.g.akamai.net has address 69.47.66.137
<br>
<br>
$ host node1.bbcimg.co.uk
<br>
node1.bbcimg.co.uk is an alias for img.bbc.net.uk.
<br>
img.bbc.net.uk is an alias for node1.bbcimg.co.uk.edgesuite.net.
<br>
node1.bbcimg.co.uk.edgesuite.net is an alias for
a1092.g.akamai.net.
<br>
a1092.g.akamai.net has address 69.47.66.155
<br>
a1092.g.akamai.net has address 69.47.66.136
<br>
<br>
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Don't know if it will help your problem but I solved my problems
with firefox be removing
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
xul-ext-ubufox .<br>
Linda
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