To be precise: (1) The website doesn't load or (2) He is just not able to Login into the site?
Regards Pankaj On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:52 AM, Chirag Wazir <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > A friend has a strange problem that I have been unable to solve, so > I thought I'd canvas for suggestions here. > > Since the last week or so, he has been unable to log in to Facebook > or Hotmail from Ubuntu. He has a dual-boot machine with Ubuntu 8.04 > and Windows XP. He is connected via a MTNL Triband connection. Both > sites still work fine in XP. Other sites work fine in Ubuntu. He's > tried several alternate browsers besides Firefox, including Opera, > SeaMonkey, etc. but has the same problem there. Sometimes the login > page on Hotmail loads up, but logging in doesn't produce any response. > In Facebook again, sometimes the login page loads, but doesn't work. > In SeaMonkey, sometimes logging in to Facebook does proceed to the > home page, but then no other links work. > > I have tried googling, but no satisfactory solution showed up. > Suggestions included clearing the cache/cookies (no effect & in any > case multiple browsers makes this unlikely), changing DNS servers > (tried both MTNL & OpenDNS, and in any case they're the same servers > as set under Windows), and even checking the Java install (I really > doubt MS uses Java on the Hotmail page, but I tried it anyway). > > Ping times of both sites seem normal. > > Any further lines of inquiry would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Chirag Wazir > http://chirag.freeshell.org > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- Fred Allen <http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/f/fred_allen.html> - "Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great." -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
