[xubuntu-users] Website completely inaccessible from Xubuntu

[James Freer]

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Chris Feld <mdmcaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you're using Chromium I ran into a similar problem with my Xubuntu
> machine where I had to close every tab manually (you can't just close the
> browser) and finally Chromium itself before I was able to access the website
> again.
>
> If not, have you tried another browser from within the Xubuntu machine?
>
> Chris

Good point - I forgot to mention I'm using Firefox. I used to use
Chrome which I found better than Chromium... google tweaked it quite a
bit! I went back to FF as I like the addons.

james


>
> On Sep 6, 2013 7:16 PM, "Anthony Papillion" <anthony at papillion.me> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gang,
>>
>> I'm experiencing a weird problem that I can't seem to track the source
>> of down. I'm hoping someone here might be able to shed some light on
>> what might be going on and how I can go about fixing it.
>>
>> On Wednesday morning, I attempted to go to www.schneier.com from my
>> Xubuntu box (this is the website of security expert Bruce Schneier).
>> I've been to the site many times with no problem at all. But, as of
>> Wednesday morning, I can't access the site at all.
>>
>> Today, I thought it might be a problem with my network so I attempted to
>> access the website from another computer. It worked! So the problem
>> seems to specifically be based on my Xubuntu 12.04 machine and I don't
>> know how to resolve it.
>>
>> I've checked in the /etc/hosts file to make sure nothing was there and
>> everything is fine. I've checked my firewall 'just in case'. No
>> problems. I'm at my wits end trying to resolve this.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anthony
>>
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