Greetings, I've just had a very nice letter from LV customer service. Great response, but they couldn't help. I can't get to LV's website on my linux box. I could get to it from my Mac, which sees the internet through the linux box... Any other linux users have similar problems? (My mac's monitor died, so I'm kinda stuck.) I get a timeout, even with firewall and proxy off (scary!). Other vendor's sites work just fine. But I don't want to order from other vendors! Yes, I have the phone number, but that's just so 20th century.
what Browser are you using, and what is it telling lV it is, most of the linux browsers can mock another browser, works fine for me in opera, and fire fox, check your browser settings and change them to pretend your IE, ess if that helps
Perhaps they were down for a moment, or there could have been a temporary DNS resolution issue, or they could have blocked your subnet (some firewalls can be configured to drop the entire fourth octet at the first scan attempt). Still another possibility is that their server was refusing connections to non-MS clients. There are plenty of reasons for your issue. To test to see if it's browser related, you can ping the site. If ping works, try curling the site:
At shell: curl
The site's index page should be save to your home directory if it's online.
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First things first. 1) can you 'ping', or 'traceroute' to it by IP address? 2) can you 'ping', or 'traceroute' to it by IP name? 3) can you browse there by IP address? 4) can you 'telnet' to their server, specifying port 80 ? e.g. 'telnet
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80' if that works (you get a connect), type 'GET / HTTP/1.0', and hit return twice 5) you might want to investigate 'tcpdump', that will show the actual packets in/out.
Also, what _exactly_ is the error message? could be a DNS look-up failure. could be a listing in a 'hosts' file, over-riding the DNS look-up. could be a packet-filter issue either in the linux box itself, or in
there may be a difference btween the LINUX box and the MAC as to what server they are using to resolve DNS names
(35) (DF)
20:01:08.258640 169.207.1.3.domain >
169.207.88.184.3776: 12875 1/2/2 A 207.35.224.158 (130) (DF)
20:01:08.259215 169.207.88.184.3263 > 207.35.224.158.http: SWE
3329740903:3329740903(0) win 4422 (DF)
20:01:11.258780 169.207.88.184.3263 >
207.35.224.158.http: SWE 3329740903:3329740903(0) win 4422 (DF)
20:01:17.258971
169.207.88.184.3263 > 207.35.224.158.http: SWE 3329740903:3329740903(0) win 4422 (DF)
20:01:29.259368 169.207.88.184.3263 > 207.35.224.158.http: SWE
3329740903:3329740903(0) win 4422 (DF) (..then nada)
Your request for
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could not be fulfilled, because the connection to
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(207.35.224.158) could not be established.
my ISP returns DNS, also, `dig` works.
maybe. I turned off iptables and privoxy. no joy. Tried adding iptables rules to log 207.35.224.158 as source and dest; nothing ever came back from them. Maybe LV doesn't like my ISP? I'll have to ask whether they blackholed my ISP.
Thanks for taking the time to help. I appreciate it. This is really mysterious.
I had trouble a couple years ago because I was using a proxy server (Junkbuster) to avoid ads and popups. The proxy was lying about my web browser and confusing their site into thinking I had a very old browser. Given that you're having a timeout I doubt that's your problem but it's worth a look.
I'm using privoxy, the successor to junkbuster. I have the linux box do dial-up; the mac goes through the linux box. Mac only saw LV when I skipped the proxy. So, yeah, junkbuster/privoxy has something to do with the problem. Curious thing is that the linux box can't see LV even with privoxy stopped.
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