From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 20:43:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12804.mail.yahoo.com (web12804.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.174.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC60937B405 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:43:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20020619034304.18991.qmail@web12804.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.188.66.29] by web12804.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:43:04 PDT Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 20:43:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Banning Subject: can't access certain web addresses - very weird To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a freebsd machine which has been operating fine for a long time, providing web access for a small network. For some reason the machine cannot access certain web addresses. It has something to do with DNS. When I try to access my home site, skytrackercanada.com, I get no connection, but I CAN connect directly to the IP address of my home machine. Other people CAN connect normally to home machine. I can't even do a whois; david>$ whois freebsd.org whois: org.whois-servers.net: No address associated with hostname yet this will work; lynx http://www.yahoo.com but I cannot go to many parts of the yahoo.com web site, but CAN go to others. No, it is not just running on the the browser cache. I can refresh and also go to previously unexplored links. The only way I am now managing to access the web with out problems is by setting the browser to my home's proxy server using, my home IP address as the server, on 3128 - going that route proves to be problem free. My first guess was that the problem is the ISP, but they solemly deny it. They are a hugh company providing a few million users. Now I am wondering whether it is a virus, but I have not seen alot of activity on the list about viruses effecting freebsd itself, most win boxes attached. Maybe I've been cracked? Does anyone have an idea of tests I can run to get more information? ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message