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[someguy]

I cannot access ANY forum related page at MR from my Mac, yet my PC works fine. I cleared the cache in FF and Safari and tried with both browsers, no dice. Any help?

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

Looks like your IP may be banned...

do you spam up the forums?

 

[someguy]

No. Besides, this computer works fine and both are on the same connection.

Update: Suddenly working. No explanation as to why...

 

[zach]

no, his IP wouldn't be banned, because in all likelyhood he's got the same external IP to his mac and PC.

more likely some sort of weird OS X issues.

OP: what exactly happens when you try to visit forums.macrumors.com on your Mac?

 

[Nermal]

Hmm, open up Terminal and type "cat /etc/hosts". It should return the following:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost

If it's different, let me know.

 

[someguy]

Working fine now, I'm not really sure what was going on but all is well. Thanks for the help though.

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

No. Besides, this computer works fine and both are on the same connection.

Update: Suddenly working. No explanation as to why...

Just wondering, how long was this happening?

 

[someguy]

No idea. I was surfing on my PC and switched over to the PB to do some in-bed-while-watching-tv surfing and it just wouldn't work.

 

[iMeowbot]

It sounds like a transient DNS error that got cached on the Mac for a while. There's really no good way to check after the fact, though.