There are quite a few things that could occur. 1 general routing issues. The easiest way to check this is with traceroute. This can be run from the terminal, but the network utility in the utilities folder has a tab for this. If you run this with ahost name like maps.google.com then a line is produced for each router between your computer and the closest point in the internet to the webserver. If all you get is lines with stars, then there is something close to your system that is blocking your requests.
If i were the owner of the web site i would have asked you what ip address you were connected to, and also asked you to try connectting with a ip address instead of aname to verify that name service was not cAusing the outage. Sent from my Windows Mobile phone From: Donna Goodin <goodi...@msu.edu> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 4:40 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Is there some way one can accidentally block a website? I am trying to access a website, and I keep getting an error message that my Mac can't connect to the server. The owner of the site says the server's been up all day, and a friend from another location has been able to connect to the site. Also, I can connect to other sites, so I know my connection is OK. If anyone has any ideas about what's going on, I'd really appreciate any help. thanks in advance, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
