Blocked site -

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/18/2012 10:13 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> On 18/10/12 09:12, Tom Horsley wrote:
>> I once had bits of newegg stop working until I went into
>> the about:config in firefox and disabled IPv6 (of course
>> the IPv6 guys all say this is absolutely impossible
>> and couldn't have any effect, but despite that, there
>> was a 100% correlation between newegg working and the
>> IPv6 flag in firefox being turned off :-).
>
>    No, that doesn't help. I don't see anything in my DD-WRT router
>    filters that would account for it and this has always worked. My ISP
>    tech support, Wildblue, denies they filter anything, however I know
>    that I get very little spam so I have little confidence in that denial.
>
>    I remember subscribing to something at Opendns that I paid for and
>    believe that they can filter also.
>
>    I don't want to start disabling stuff at random simply because one
>    site is blocked ... However I did disable IPv6 as you suggested.
>
>    Isn't there a scheme for running Firefox with all the add-ons
>    disabled? I haven't been able to find anything there and I haven't
>    changed any recently.
>
>    Thanks for the suggestions,
>

Did you try....

telnet newegg.com 80


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