Strange problems trying to access web servers

[Tyler Aviss]

A few tests:

Try "curl" and see if it shows some weird response?

or

Try "telnet www.somesite.com 80" and see if that can establish a connection



Any luck?

- TJA

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Henry de Valence <hdevalence-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> So basically the problem is that the connection times out when I try to access
> a web server--but only for certain servers. These include svn.kde.org,
> planetkde.org, kdedevelopers.org, bbc.co.uk, xkcd.com, space.com, and some
> others, though there may be more that I don't know of. But some other sites,
> such as slashdot.org or freenode.net work fine. I tried using different browsers
> (Firefox, Konqueror, links) and they all fail. In addition, subversion doesn't
> work with svn.kde.org . I can ping all of the servers and get responses, but I
> get no response trying to actually *use* them.
>
> The problem occurred on a clean install, which would indicate to me that it's
> not my computer, but it doesn't happen on other computers in the house, which
> would indicate to me that it *is* my computer, which is very confusing.
>
> Right now I'm using KDE 4.1 on Kubuntu 8.10.
>
> Henry
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