Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 01 August 2009 16:53:08 Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, For some reason, YouTube doesn't work for me in some web browsers. It acts like the hostname is not found. When I do host www.youtube.com lookups and tcptraceroute to port 80 and everything else I have tried to diagnose it seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 01 August 2009 16:53:08 Paul Hartman wrote: Hi, For some reason, YouTube doesn't work for me in some web browsers. It acts like the hostname is not found. When I do host www.youtube.com lookups and

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 01 August 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but... 3. They hijack

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 01 August 2009 18:56:24 Paul Hartman wrote: Following that thought -- I wonder if there is a special YouTube server for my ISP and the standard/outside YouTube server farm is blocked? I've read about Google hosting servers at or near major ISPs to reduce the number of hops, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but... 3. They hijack DNS, making every invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to advertisers. They claim to