Re: Only some websites will open - Ubuntu

Big Dave Smith wrote:
On May 30, 4:30 pm, The Natural Philosopher <a...@xxx> wrote:

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, no, it was not the same IP address. The way I did the
network setup in vmware, the virtual machine is assigned it's own IP
on the network. I believe. I actually reinstalled, since everything
was fresh. An hour and a half later, the same problem, with the same
websites. Slashdot won't load, vmware.com won't load,
toothpastefordinner.com exhibits the curious behavior that I can hit
refresh dozens of times (I'm sure he appreciates me) and slowly load
in a portion of the page.


I have seen this before..but I can't remember why it happened.

Also, I've not noticed any odd behavior with updates or installations,
so those servers seem to be happy.


Mmm.



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

I agree, I do not believe it is a DNS problem. The pages start to
load, I get the title in the title bar, and an icon on some pages, but
that's it. And yes, the pings don't fail lookup. I receive an ip
address for basically whatever I type in.


Right. Its not DNS for sure.

Its not the underlying network low level stuff cos that is independent of IP address.

I also can't blame firefox, because a fresh Kubuntu install only has
Konqueror, and it has the same problem, even before I install
firefox. Firefox IS the latest stable build, however.


Mmm. I wonder if you have a router/firewall issues that only applies to the exact IP address that the linux is on?

I have a 'dumb' linux question, for my next idea. I know windows
doesn't complain if I turn it off, jam a new network card in, and turn
it back on. It sets it up and everything. If I do that with Kubuntu,
will it take care of the setup? Just on the odd chance it's my
onboard card, I DO have another downstairs I can plug in and try.


Not sure. I set stuff up and get it working and never touch it unless I really have to. Ubuntu is supposed to be as plug and play as it gets though,.

But I do not think this is the problem somehow.


Thanks again for all your help, Philosopher. I owe you one. Let me
know if you have further suggestions, please.


Can you tell us what sort of network/router/firewall you have there?

A dump of the "route" command might be good, also "ifconfig -a"


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