On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, 17:45:52 +0200, Stan Goodman wrote:
[...] I haven't been able to ping that server for years;
You could try telnet www.jpost.com 80 as an attempt to access that site with the most stupid browser.
I'm sure it's set up not to allow ping. In the same way, I haven't been able to ping cnn.com, which is working fine here.
Furthermore, Firefox in the WinXP virtual machine has no trouble with the problematic server.
My conclusion is that the server is ok, and somehow all three browsers (or something that they have in common) are screwed up.
Did you install some extensions on the M$ OS for which there are no equivalents on Linux? HTH, cheers. l8er manfred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org