At 16:48:25 on Wednesday Wednesday 29 July 2009, Pete Connolly <pete.connolly@btinternet.com> wrote:
On 29/07/2009 14:40, Stan Goodman wrote:
A few hours ago a specific website<http://www.jpost.com> became inaccessible in Firefox, and began to behave as if unrecognized by the DNS. Calling its URL caused my own home page to be displayed instead (this is what happens when a non-existent URL is entered in the navigation field). When this continued for so long as to become suspicious, I logged into WinXP in VirtualBox, and found that the same website is accessed normally, so there is nothing wrong with the website, which made me think that I needed a new profile.
The new profile is also unable to access the website. The same thing happens on Opera and on Konqueror, so the problem has nothing to do with a specific browser. There is also no problem with other websites.
I am behind two separate firewalls (hardware in my router and openSuSE software.
I am out of ways to diagnose the problem. Does it make sense to anyone?
Hi Stan
Do you use a proxy server with Firefox, Opera and Konqueror?
I never have, in all these years, and I suppose that has to change now. You are suggesting that I have been attacked, I gather, which I had also considered (thus my remark about firewall). But it isn't clear to me how all three of these browsers might have been attacked.!?! Nor how this behavior can affect only that one specific website. And lastly, what to do about it now in order to get out of this pickle. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org