Just bought the Blackbook, Google, Yahoo and Youtube wont work

[rpelleg]

All other website work perfectly, but for some reason i my mac cant get on google or yahoo. if i go to youtube the formatting is all screwed up. I can load the other sites fine on my dell laptop, but for whatever reason these three websites wont work for my mac....

Whats going on here??

 

[CaptainCaveMann]

All other website work perfectly, but for some reason i my mac cant get on google or yahoo. if i go to youtube the formatting is all screwed up. I can load the other sites fine on my dell laptop, but for whatever reason these three websites wont work for my mac....

Whats going on here??

That's really weird. Did you try re-setting safari?

 

[rpelleg]

yeah i did that....i asked everyone i know who owns a mac and they never heard of this problem before

 

[thechidz]

its not your mac, thats for sure. it must be something with your connection

 

[Baer]

Hey I was wondering if you ever found anything out on this issue as I have encountered the same one and have not found anything out yet?

 

[someguy7014]

**Duplicate post**

 

[someguy7014]

if you are connected to a Wifi network that isnt yours i.e a public or work or school Wifi network it could well be the proxy server.

 

[Baer]

I have tried using other networks and still have the same problem. When I ping yahoo this is the result:

ping: sendto: No route to host
PING yahoo.com (68.180.206.184): 56 data bytes

--- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

This is the result of doing a look up of yahoo:

; <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P1 <<>> yahoo.com +multiline +nocomments +nocmd +noquestion +nostats +search
;; global options: printcmd
yahoo.com. 742 IN A 68.180.206.184
yahoo.com. 742 IN A 206.190.60.37

And this is the result of the traceroute:

traceroute: Warning: yahoo.com has multiple addresses; using 68.180.206.184
traceroute to yahoo.com (68.180.206.184), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
traceroute: sendto: No route to host
1 traceroute: wrote yahoo.com 40 chars, ret=-1

Google gives the same messages but youtube seems to respond okay but the website only lists words and no pictures/logos.

 

[plinden]

Is your MacBook new from Apple or used?

If used, the last owner may have modified /etc/hosts.

Open Terminal and type:

less /etc/hosts

Are there any entries for yahoo and google there?

Edit: Actually, if you're getting 68.180.206.184 as yahoo's IP address during the ping, your DNS is working correctly. So forget what I said about /etc/hosts

This is weird. Do you anything like Little Snitch or a third party firewall installed?

 

[Baer]

Wow I feel really stupid now. I completely forgot that I had a firewall running. It must have got some weird update or something because it just quit working recently. Thank you very much for your help.