On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> > > On Dec 11, 2008, at 7:23 PM, George Hozendorf wrote: > >> I have www.cnn.com set at my home page, but is opens the Apple page. >> CNN is in my Bookmarks Bar. When I click on it, I still get Apple. >> This scenario is the same in both Safari and Firefox. Does anyone >> have any idea what's causing this? > > What happens if you type the address in, do you get the right site? > > I'd normally says something was wrong with your bookmarks, but not on > both programs. > > Start Terminal (in Applications/Utilities) and type the following into > the box: > > host www.cnn.com > > report what you get. > > I get this: > > dbdev2:~ johnson$ host www.cnn.com > www.cnn.com has address 157.166.255.19 > www.cnn.com has address 157.166.255.18 > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > > > Which means there's some networking issues going on, whether locally > (to me) or at cnn or somewhere in between. > > When I do: > > host www.apple.com > > I get: > > www.apple.com is an alias for www.apple.com.akadns.net. > www.apple.com.akadns.net has address 17.251.200.32 > > > 17.*.*.* is Apples Class A network. One of the first companies to get > on the Internet, and one of the few that has a class A network all > their own. > > <http://xkcd.com/195/> > > > -- > Bruce Johnson > University of Arizona > College of Pharmacy > Information Technology Group > > Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs Typing in www.cnn.com brought up Apple again. A re-boot cleared up the problem for now. I'll keep your eMail for future reference. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
