If pinging the site from the CLI is unsuccessful, it might be worth trying to access the sites from a proxy on the web to act like you are in a different location. There was a forum I visited regularly that went down once, but only for some users. Somehow they had two IP addresses for the same Domain name, and ... location had something to do with it. OK, I wasn't bright enough to understand the explanation back then, so no use trying to explain it now. But the end result was using a proxy (or using the "good" IP address directly in the address bar) worked until they resolved the issue.
Even though Google didn't reveal any other complaints of similar issues for those sites when I just checked, It could be worth a try. Here was one blog post talking about using a proxy server, if you want to try: http://blog.davidaugust.com/2008/08/use-proxy-to-change-internet-location.html There's probably better ones, though... On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought at first that I had set my FF settings so that it did not allow > enough time, but Phoronix and Guardian links come up immediately with the > error message. Unixmen does take a bit, but eventually comes up with the > same error. Then I tried it in Chromium with the same result. Then I tried > Safari in Wine. Same. Then I tried FF in XP VM. Same. I went to my wife's > computer with Mint 10 and XP. Same result there. Lastly I tried my netbook > with Ubuntu 10.10 and XP. Got nowhere. > > I think that it must be my ISP. I am still looking into that. It can't be my > computer when I have tried three computers, three different OSes and several > browsers all with the same result. I have a neighbour with an insecure > connection, but his signal is weak today. When it picks up I will try his > internet which uses a different provider. If it does not work there, then I > am flummoxed. > > Roy > > Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit > Location: Canada > ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
