On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 10:30 -0600, random at argle.org wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Kraig Jones wrote:
> 
> > "I'm having a strange problem with Firefox and Ubuntu on my notebook
> > computer.  Since yesterday, I've been getting the message "The
> > connection was refused when attempting to contact ___", for some
> > addresses including www.yahoo.com and www.google.com.  Others, incuding
> > slashdot.org, www.hclib.org, and www.newegg.com, appear to work OK. "
> >
> > p.s. -- A couple things I forgot to mention.  1. The web pages that I
> > can access are current, so I know I'm not getting copies from a cache.
> > 2. Firefox is set to block pop-ups, and allow cookies, and java and javascript are enabled.
> >
> 
> Double check the IP addresses it is getting for the sites it
> refuses to connect to. I've heard about some bizarre DNS
> failures recently and this is the external symptom of those.
> 
> If it is getting invalid IP addresses I will be very interested
> in more details of your setup.

Thanks for the reply.  Can you tell me how to check the IP addresses
that a browser is connecting to?  I'm assuming you mean the numeric
address for yahoo, google etc.  I do see "Resolving host ... " and
"Connecting to ..." in the status bar.  Then "The connection was
refused ..."


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