One web page won't load in any browser

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One web page won't load in any browser

I have one site that all of a sudden, won't load in any stand-alone browser (have tried Firefox, Camino, Safari, Opera). I get a time-out error. The will load, however, if I use the AOL browser or a cloaking site. I checked with my ISP which says it doesn't block any site. In fact, the rep said he had no problem going directly to the site. I have turned off firewall, shut down and restarted AirPort and DSL modem, reloaded software to AirPort, all to no avail. Does anyone have any idea what's causing this or how to fix it?

PPC G4, Mac OS X (10.4.11), Airport Extreme Card, AirPort Snow

Posted on Sep 6, 2008 5:55 PM

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BDAqua

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Sep 6, 2008 6:12 PM in response to pdquick

Hi Pdquick, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂

Check to see if any Proxies are set in Network Pref Pane.

Try Tiger flush DNS Cache...

lookupd- flushcache

Paste the above in to Terminal... Enter, reboot.

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pdquick Author

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Sep 6, 2008 10:06 PM in response to BDAqua

Thanks for the welcome, BDAqua.

No proxies are set in Network Prefs. I tried the command anyway in Terminal and got "command not found."

😟

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BDAqua

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Sep 6, 2008 10:21 PM in response to pdquick

OOPs, I put the space & dash in reverse order, (could be a serious problem on some commands!), here's the real one...

sudo lookupd -flushcache

No idea if you need to restart or not though.

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pdquick Author

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Sep 6, 2008 10:30 PM in response to BDAqua

I did "sudo lookupd -flushcache" and rebooted but still no luck.

Thanks, though.

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BDAqua

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Sep 6, 2008 10:35 PM in response to pdquick

Long shot, but these are safer DNS numbers anyway, so try putting these numbers in Network>TCP/IP>DNS Servers...

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220

Then Apply.

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pdquick Author

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Sep 7, 2008 1:41 PM in response to BDAqua

Should have mentioned it, but tried that already.

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BDAqua

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Sep 7, 2008 1:55 PM in response to pdquick

Only thing I can figure is to make a copy of the hidden file at...

/private/etc/hosts

So you can look at it to see if it's blocked somehow.

Can you give the URL that doesn;'t work?

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sig

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Sep 7, 2008 2:20 PM in response to pdquick

Any chance you can post the url of the site?

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pdquick Author

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Sep 29, 2008 2:45 AM in response to sig

webcamnow.com

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Klaus1

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Sep 29, 2008 3:08 AM in response to pdquick

That site works fine for me.

You need Flash to use their facility.

The latest version of Adobe FlashPlayer can be obtained from here:

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash

(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS.

Note that Adobe requires you to uninstall any previous version of Flash Player, using the uninstaller from here (make sure you use the correct one!):

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157

and also that you follow the instructions closely, such as closing ALL applications first.

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