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 ..." _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list