Cannot connect to Cracked.com

Have you tried other web browsers? How about another user account? Any change?

Does the page refuse to load and/or do you see an error message?

~Lyssa

There was another thread about this site...

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9533595&#9533595

Are you running any Parental Control or similar software?

Dave

Trying another user account should only take a few minutes, even if you have to create that new account. You could delete it once we're done troubleshooting.

If you can visit the site without issues in the new user account, this suggests a problem in your main account--perhaps a problem with the hosts file or some DNS settings. If you still have issues in the new account, your problem is system wide--or you may have a problem with your modem and/or router.

~Lyssa

If you feed the site to validator.w3.org there are many errors
with the html code, so the site is not well written.
Did you try using the OpenDNS servers?

I haven't had any problems getting to the site (from various
browsers on various operating systems).

The "...cannot connect to.." error is usually an indication of
a DNS problem.

Dave

That certainly is possible. Do you have another computer you could try? Do you have Windows installed on your Mac? Have you tried accessing the site with your computer while connected to another network (ie: going to a friend's house to see if you can visit the site while on his/her network)?

~Lyssa

It's possible because of the name that your ISP has put it on a blocking list.
See if you can ping it. That's very basic. If you cannot ping it, then it's most likely blocked.
However, you might see if using a free proxy in FF allows you to get to it.

I am having the same problem and have noticed it on at least one other website, about.com. What's strange is that I cannot access Cracked.com or any about.com site with either Safari 4.0 or Firefox (although I was accessing them fine prior to the upgrade) but my iPod touch can just fine. I have a 2.4Ghz MacBook running OSX 10.5.7 that connects to the net through an airport express. When I'm connected to my work's network I can connect to cracked.com (I needed a control test) but I have not checked about.com
why would the iPod connect but not the computer?

You should start a new thread.
You are also asking the person who posted the original problem for an answer to your problem, which is not the main purpose of a thread.
Your problem is different enough to warrant a new thread.

I'm having the exact same problem. Neither cracked.com or about.com work in either Safari or Firefox. I've tried different users as well and I cannot connect under the different accounts either. This is rather annoying...

Oddly enough, it works fine while running Windows XP under Parallels.

Add some more sites that do not work:
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://www.scifi.com/rewind/?sid=870861 (None of the videos play)
http://en.allexperts.com/

Neither work in Firefox or Safari under OS X. All work fine in XP.

Does no one have any more suggestions for this? I tried plugging my modem directly into my Macbook, but it still doesn't work, so it's not the router. I also tried pinging all of these sites, but they all time out immediately (literally, right after I press "Return"). It's like it's not even trying to contact the site before it times out. Since others are having the same problems on the same sites, I doubt it's our ISPs blocking them, either.

There is clearly some bug in OS X networking that is preventing seemingly random sites from loading, as like I said earlier, all the sites work fine under Windows XP (both Bootcamp and Parallels). This is (barely) tolerable now, but once sites I actually visit on a regular basis stop working in OS X, I'm not going to be a happy camper.

MonoMatt304 wrote:
Add some more sites that do not work:
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://www.scifi.com/rewind/?sid=870861 (None of the videos play)
http://en.allexperts.com/

No problems whatsoever viewing any of those sites here in Safari 4.0.1 so it must be a configuration or ISP issue on your end.

Have you had a look at the hosts file?
It is in a hidden folder on your startup disc called private then it is in ect and the file is called hosts

You can block any website / connection to the web from your computer through this file.

This is what the file should have in it
"##
# Host Database
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
##"

What is in between the quotes is all that is needed

PLEASE BACKUP ANY SYSTEM FILE BEFORE EDITING IT!

**USE AT YOUR OWN RISK**

Note: to edit this file you will need to change the permissions on the file it self and the folder. But do be sure to change these permissions back.

My host file only contains the following:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

And just for the heck of it, an attempted ping:

Macbook-OSX:~ Mono$ ping www.about.com
PING www.about.akadns.net (207.241.148.80): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host