Re: [opensuse] Three different browsers can't access website, fourth can

At 17:30:30 on Wednesday Wednesday 29 July 2009, Pete Connolly
<pete.connolly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 29/07/2009 15:06, Stan Goodman wrote:
At 16:48:25 on Wednesday Wednesday 29 July 2009, Pete Connolly

<pete.connolly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 29/07/2009 14:40, Stan Goodman wrote:
A few hours ago a specific website<http://www.jpost.com> became
inaccessible in Firefox, and began to behave as if unrecognized by
the DNS. Calling its URL caused my own home page to be displayed
instead (this is what happens when a non-existent URL is entered in
the navigation field). When this continued for so long as to
become suspicious, I logged into WinXP in VirtualBox, and found
that the same website is accessed normally, so there is nothing
wrong with the website, which made me think that I needed a new
profile.

The new profile is also unable to access the website. The same
thing happens on Opera and on Konqueror, so the problem has nothing
to do with a specific browser. There is also no problem with other
websites.

I am behind two separate firewalls (hardware in my router and
openSuSE software.

I am out of ways to diagnose the problem. Does it make sense to
anyone?

Hi Stan

Do you use a proxy server with Firefox, Opera and Konqueror?

I never have, in all these years, and I suppose that has to change
now. You are suggesting that I have been attacked, I gather, which I
had also considered (thus my remark about firewall). But it isn't
clear to me how all three of these browsers might have been
attacked.!?! Nor how this behavior can affect only that one specific
website. And lastly, what to do about it now in order to get out of
this pickle.

I was thinking more in terms of a broken proxy, rather than someone
attacking you. I've had squid fail in the past which affected my
everyone on my home network until I changed to access the internet
directly.

Can you ping www.jpost.com directly from a console? Not that that's
the best ever test, but I'd like to see if it's networking that's
broken or your browser's routes to jpost.com

I haven't been able to ping that server for years; I'm sure it's set up
not to allow ping. In the same way, I haven't been able to ping cnn.com,
which is working fine here.

Furthermore, Firefox in the WinXP virtual machine has no trouble with the
problematic server.

My conclusion is that the server is ok, and somehow all three browsers (or
something that they have in common) are screwed up.

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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