On Feb 20, 2:02 am, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.comfrom 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
Lie, Wow. Strangely, that script returned 192.168.1.106. However, in Snow Leopard's airport settings, if I click on 'advanced' and then 'proxies', the default proxy for 'http' is 127.0.0.1:4444 (and in these settings, the 'use proxy for http' is checked). I just tried checking the unix files you mentioned. In etc/hosts, the following info is displayed: ## # Host Database # # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface # when the system is booting. Do not change this entry. ## 127.0.0.1 localhost 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost ::1 localhost fe80::1%lo0 localhost Also found a file called ntp-restrict.conf, containing: # Access restrictions documented in ntp.conf(5) and # http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/AccessRestrictions # Limit network machines to time queries only restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery restrict -6 default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery # localhost is unrestricted restrict 127.0.0.1 restrict -6 ::1 includefile /private/etc/ntp.conf Not sure if these are what I'm looking for -- I'm new to unix so I may need a bit more hand-holding here. I appreciate your time and effort. Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list