Linux users, problems connecting to LV?

Australopithecus scobusing:

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

Pops right up for me...(Red Hat 9, Mozilla 1.4)

-Bruce

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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Works fine for me--gentoo/konqueror.

Works from here, Redhat 8, Mozilla ancient.

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

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

ping, no. traceroute gets to 207.35.224.129, one hop shy of LV (207.35.224.158).

no ping, traceroute as above.

no. no browser (I gotta lotta browsers) can get there.

no telnet: connect to address 207.35.224.158: Connection timed out

tcpdump: listening on ppp0

Your request for

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.

FWIW, I get the same thing, yet I can connect to the site just fine (RH9 / Moz 1.8a2). They are probably blocking ICMP at their border.

Are you on direct dial-out from your Linux desktop? If not, you should probably be listening on eth0.

That's the same address that I get here. DNS looks OK.

You may want to look at your routing table. I've seen weird stuff get in there and cause havoc.

Thanks. I figured. I am going to have to fix the firewall.

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.