On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Kraig Jones wrote:

> "I'm having a strange problem with Firefox and Ubuntu on my notebook
> computer.  Since yesterday, I've been getting the message "The
> connection was refused when attempting to contact ___", for some
> addresses including www.yahoo.com and www.google.com.  Others, incuding
> slashdot.org, www.hclib.org, and www.newegg.com, appear to work OK. "
>
> p.s. -- A couple things I forgot to mention.  1. The web pages that I
> can access are current, so I know I'm not getting copies from a cache.
> 2. Firefox is set to block pop-ups, and allow cookies, and java and javascript are enabled.
>

Double check the IP addresses it is getting for the sites it
refuses to connect to. I've heard about some bizarre DNS
failures recently and this is the external symptom of those.

If it is getting invalid IP addresses I will be very interested
in more details of your setup.
-- 
Daniel Taylor
random at argle.org
Forget diamonds, Copyright is forever.

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