On 02/20/10 13:32, MattB wrote: > > I'm using the network in my own apartment. Not the campus's. > Moreover, my mac's MAC address is different from the MAC address shown > by my router, but as I said I'm also blocked when using my friend's > wireless router at his apartment. > > So it must be my mac's MAC, and not the router's MAC, that's being > blocked, right? > > But ALSO -- is it my ISP that's blocking the mac's MAC (and not the > school), since I can't raise ANY url's from python when I'm on > wireless?
MAC or IP blocking can't be the reason, as the OP stated, he can use Firefox just fine. Can you access, say, http://www.google.com from urllib or mechanize? If you can't access *any website* using urllib/mechanize but you can with a browser and you're on a unix-based machine, you probably have the same problem as I used to have. Check whether you used the same hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/hosts (or wherever your distro saves its hostname configurations, I use Gentoo); after editing those files reboot (there are ways to avoid reboot, but rebooting guarantees the conf file is reread). Check the hostname by running this python script: import socket hn = socket.gethostname() print hn print socket.gethostbyname(hn) # should be 127.0.0.1 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
