Can't access yahoo email or facebook on Ubuntu

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

check your proxy settings
you can also use google's nds service instead of verizon's one
8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4

[3177]

Ive had a problem exactly like this before, turned out to be I couldnt use AdBlockPlus or NoScript.
If your using these they need to be turned off on those pages.

[madelman]

I changed to Google DNS my Verizon router and still same problem.

SO , searching in internet I found something about MTU.

I entered: ifconfig eth1 mtu 1454

(eth1 is my wireless network)

.. and that made the trick. I am not sure but it was in 1500.
I don't understand why without changing something everything worked in the Comcast network, but in Verizon network looks like there is a problem. I don't know if something changed or not in my laptop, but I tried on a desktop and got same issue. I haven't checked on the desktop yet but I am sure that would be same case if I change the MTU.

So either Verizon changed something or yahoo and facebook changed something in their websites. Or an Ubuntu update changed it, don't know and don't understand.

Does anybody have any idea why this might have happened?


thanks.

[sticmann]

Thank you madelman. That MTU thing did the trick for me also. What changed, I wonder?

[graffiX]

Thanks... the MTU thing worked for me too.

[silverwolf636]

Wow! I've been having the same problem with my wired connection. I ran the eth1 but changed it to eth0 and it worked.
thanks

[silverwolf636]

Where can I put this script so that I don't have to enter it everytime I want to get on the net?