Unable to access certain websites from Ubuntu

[karthik.k.nair]

you ma try using ipadress of the particular website tat u r not able to visit. if u r able to visite using ip address then most probably it is the dns problem

[DemianDemerzel]

http://38.118.71.170/ should give you the same as theatlantic.com
http://216.87.173.18 should give you tvfanatic.com

If those are not working, it's definitely not a nameserver issue

Which are "those"?

Call it a coincidence or what but after clicking on those two links I now face no problem loading TV Fanatic and The Atlantic.

The problem persists with Hotmail and Foreign Policy and Deutsche Welle....

What could be behind this so far inexplicable problem?

[DemianDemerzel]

you ma try using ipadress of the particular website tat u r not able to visit. if u r able to visite using ip address then most probably it is the dns problem

Namaste Karthik,

Assuming that you an expert, I want to tell you that I'm not a technical guy. I am still learning computers. Installing Ubuntu by myself to me was like climbing the Mount Everest. So I ask you - where can I find the IP addresses of the websites in question?

[jtarin]

Namaste Karthik,

Assuming that you an expert, I want to tell you that I'm not a technical guy. I am still learning computers. Installing Ubuntu by myself to me was like climbing the Mount Everest. So I ask you - where can I find the IP addresses of the websites in question?

Plenty of places to ge that info on the net....here's one.
http://www.hcidata.info/host2ip.cgi

[DemianDemerzel]

Plenty of places to ge that info on the net....here's one.
http://www.hcidata.info/host2ip.cgi

Dear JTarin,

Now I have the IP address. What do I do now? Put them in the URL box. It didn't work for me.

[scott-ian]

The IP addresses should work. If not, there may be another problem. You didn't type your own IP by accident did you?

[DemianDemerzel]

The IP addresses should work. If not, there may be another problem. You didn't type your own IP by accident did you?

Hi Scott!

I just checked and found out that the IP addresses are only not working for websites which give the problem. For other websites, the IP addresses work.

[Wim Sturkenboom]

Which are "those"?

Call it a coincidence or what but after clicking on those two links I now face no problem loading TV Fanatic and The Atlantic.

The problem persists with Hotmail and Foreign Policy and Deutsche Welle....

What could be behind this so far inexplicable problem?

OK, should have been more clear; the links with the IP addresses should work and should give you the sites that I mentioned after them.

Hi Scott!

I just checked and found out that the IP addresses are only not working for websites which give the problem. For other websites, the IP addresses work.

I think your contradicting yourself (for some of them). If you follow the links with the IP addresses that I gave and they worked, they work and your issue is a name server issue for those sites.

You can add entries in /etc/hosts using an editor (as marked in bold below). It is a workaround and if the IP address of theatlantic.com ever changes, you must remember to check that and update the file /etc/hosts to reflect the new IP address. So I should rather try to solve it another way.

127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.1.1	desktop-01

38.118.71.170   theatlantic.com

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

[ClientAlive]

Which are "those"?

Call it a coincidence or what but after clicking on those two links I now face no problem loading TV Fanatic and The Atlantic.

The problem persists with Hotmail and Foreign Policy and Deutsche Welle....

What could be behind this so far inexplicable problem?

I was just reading about a command called traceroute. It traces the route from your computer to the place you put in to go to and tells detailed info on each step of the way as well as general info (at the bottom) about packets sent and recieved and packet loss.

For example:

traceroute theatlantic.com

OR

traceroute hotmail.com

I had to install traceroute on my system (Ubuntu 10.04) because it wasn't already there.

sudo apt-get install traceroute

Here is an excerpt from the book I am reading that talks about it:

traceroute

The traceroute program (some systems use the similar tracepath program
instead) displays a listing of all the “hops” network traffic takes to get from the local
system to a specified host. For example, to see the route taken to reach
slashdot.org . . .

Maybe it would help you in the future or with hotmail now.

You can also "ping" a web site from the command line. It will give only the basic info of packets sent packets received packets lost. If you do ping you have to hit ctrl+c to stop it after a few pings or it will just keep going. After stopping it is when the info is shown.

ping hotmail.com

HTH

[Wim Sturkenboom]

Not behind a ubuntu machine at the moment but a graphical version of traceroute is part of the networking tools in one of the menus.