[xubuntu-users] Website completely inaccessible from Xubuntu

[Chris Feld]

Does Firefox give you an error message? I'd try a different browser on the
same machine to rule out it being localized to the browser or a more
systemic problem.

Chris
On Sep 6, 2013 7:33 PM, "James Freer" <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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