I think we've got it. thanks Jonathan. Donna On Feb 16, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
> There are quite a few things that could occur. > 1 general routing issues. The easiest way to check this is with > traceroute. This can be run from the terminal, but the network utility > in the utilities folder has a tab for this. If you run this with ahost > name like maps.google.com then a line is produced for each router > between your computer and the closest point in the internet to the > webserver. If all you get is lines with stars, then there is something > close to your system that is blocking your requests. > > If i were the owner of the web site i would have asked you what ip > address you were connected to, and also asked you to try connectting > with a ip address instead of aname to verify that name service was not > cAusing the outage. > > Sent from my Windows Mobile phone > > From: Donna Goodin <goodi...@msu.edu> > Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 4:40 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Is there some way one can accidentally block a website? > I am trying to access a website, and I keep getting an error message > that my Mac can't connect to the server. The owner of the site says > the server's been up all day, and a friend from another location has > been able to connect to the site. Also, I can connect to other sites, > so I know my connection is OK. If anyone has any ideas about what's > going on, I'd really appreciate any help. > thanks in advance, > Donna > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
