Certain Websites not loading/displaying

Trying your posted link in Safari and I can't get it to open either. However clicking the link directly from Google works everytime. I'm not sure why it doesn't work but thought I'd add my results for comparison.

Edit: this is from Google http://distrowatch.com/

 

Hi Martin and welcome.

When I copied your link it was:

http://www.distrowatch.com)

I removed the bracket and it loaded in Safari without a problem.

 

You've included the ')' in the URL.

Edit: beaten by seconds...

 

Well, I don't know, but the problem is presumably with your setup because I can access distrowatch.com fine on Safari on my iBook G4. There is some horizontal scrolling, which I assume is just bad design.

 

hi i was searching google and found this intresting post and seem to have a similar problem.

i have a core duo mac mini and i have tried firefox beta rc3 firefox 2.0 and safari and cannot rectify my problem.

sites i cannot conect to include

youtube.com
myspace.com
distrowatch.com (tried out of curosity)
and more that i cannot think of

any suggestions

note: the sites do not time out they just instantly display cannot connect message i have a pc as well that can connect just fine i created another account on my mac and that account could not connect to the mentioned sites either

 

before i take it back to the apple store im going to try it at school today to see if it could possibly be my network if it doesnt work then that definatly means its my mac

(i run the sound and lights for my school play and theyre doing a haunted hallway thing tonight so im gonna be there lat anyway ) but if the test fails then im gonna bring it to apple and see what they say

 

i just connected on my friend's proxy server and the sites that did not previously work suddenly worked. hoewver switching to my local connection, they do not work. this confuses me as to the fact that this is the first time this ahs happened to me and ive never had this sort of problem viewing sites

any advice?

 

i havent been here in a few days and figured id stop by,

i ended up just reinstalling since the thing was a mac, it wasnt the big of a deal to do and i could just copy things back over from my external drive.

however, after giving some thought and observations i have come to two possible conclusions.

1. the problem may be flash based since youtube and myspace both run on flash

2. if by chance you use Peer Guardian, disable it, it my be blocking HTTP i wouldnt know if these are the issues because i reformated, but its a good possibility

(btw i reinstalled flash in a last ditch effort to no avail.)

 

yep it works perfect if you havent installed peerguardian than thats probably not the problem but i had been using it so thats what came to my mind


try reinstalling flash too

macs and flash seem to get funky sometimes

 

Websites don't display on MAC on certain DSL Networks

Have you had any luck figuring this out? I have several clients that have the same problem. www.acsa-arch.org, www.naab.org. Same results. On PC on the same network fine, MAC no. Same MAC on diff network, works fine. All indications point to the modem, however I am stuck figuring out what the problem is.

 

what do you get when you do

Code:

$ nslookup naab.org

 

I'm having the same problem, but it's with google. I've posted it about it in this thread (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=474586)

i'm not sure what nslookup is, but i get this back for google

Odin:~ tjbeck$ nslookup google.com
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 72.14.207.99
Name: google.com
Address: 64.233.167.99
Name: google.com
Address: 64.233.187.99

 

we get this back

Last login: Wed Sep 3 20:24:47 on ttys001
lee-waldreps-macbook:~ lwaldrep$ nslookup naab.org
Server: 192.168.1.1
Address: 192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: naab.org
Address: 216.52.123.228

 

when typing in the domains try adding either

http:// to the beginning or www.

some websites don't work without the www.

like this uni website:

http://soton.ac.uk

http://www.soton.ac.uk

 

just to rule out it being a DNS issue.

hmm, maybe for some reason mac denies access to the site via http? try using telnet to try and connect to the site

Code:

telnet google.com 80 
GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 
host: google.com 
$press enter

or replace google with w/e troubled site. and index.html with .htm or w/e it may be

 

I'm having this problem too. Hotmail, Myspace and Meebo, as well as some others I've tried, cannot be loaded. I rang the Apple service centre and they were at a loss. They recommended reconfiguring/reinstalling the entire system, which sounds like a very time consuming and difficult process. Has anyone had results after backing everything up and starting again?

 

I'm having this problem too. I'm on a Macbook using the most current Safari. no matter which network I'm connected to, i can't load yahoo, youtube, my college's website, google (though that one started working again). but some of the other sites mentioned like myspace, facebook, etc. work fine. me and my friends are stumped...