Re: Only some websites will open - Ubuntu

Big Dave Smith wrote:
On May 30, 12:18 pm, The Natural Philosopher <a...@xxx> wrote:

Curiouser and curiouser.

Did you say that a winXp machine on te same IP adress worked?


Yes. This computer was (96 hours ago) a Windows XP computer, which
worked fine for me for about 3 years. Also, the copy of WindowsXP I
am running from within vmware on the Kubuntu setup has no problems.


And this was/is on the same IP address?

What is bothering me, is that IIRC the Vmware simply connects via the Linux drivers..so its weird that that works, and the underlying native stiff does not..

Actually, thinking back, maybe a year ago I threw a hard drive into
this computer to run SuSE off of. I believe I had networking problems
with that installation as well.

The setup is a Tyan Tiger i7505 motherboard with dual Intel 2.4GHz
Intel Xeon processors with a 533MHz FSB and hyperthreading enabled.
For my internet connection I am using the onboard ethernet, which is
only 10/100, I believe, although the specs I'm finding on the 7505
look like they have a gigabit ethernet option as well. 2GB of RAM.

The cable from the computer to the router (Linksys RV082) is shielded
Cat. 5e all the way, and I consider the router to be reliable,
particularly since if I flip over to XP, everything works fine.

Someone suggested checking the hosts file. I don't even know what
that means, but if there is something I should do or look for, please
let me know with a little more detail. I'm more of a web developer
than a linux guru.


thats /etc/hosts. Poor man's DNS.

But DNS is not the issue I think since PING worked to the point of saying either success or 100% packet loss, not 'unknown host' or whatever.

I am more and more thinking its a higher level issue. Somewhere inside Firefox...or a firefox/memory/x-windows issue maybe.

You ARE running te latest firefox I hope? there was at least one release that was flakey as hell.





Thanks again!
-Dave

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