Blocked site -

Thu Oct 18 16:17:22 UTC 2012

On 18/10/12 12:01, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 10/18/2012 11:35 PM, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
>>     On 18/10/12 10:24, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>      Did you try....
>>>
>>>      telnet newegg.com 80
>>>
>>     telnet newegg.com 80 paralyzes the terminal, just sits there:
>>
>>         bobg at box9 ~]$ telnet newegg.com 80
>>         Trying 208.91.197.27...
>>         Connected to newegg.com.
>>         Escape character is '^]'.
>>         ^C^[\
> This is *correct* behavior.  It shows you can connect to port 80 (http) of newegg.  You should simply do CTRL-] to "un-paralyse" your terminal.
>
>>     [bobg at box9 ~]$ telnet newegg.com
>>     Trying 208.91.197.27...
>>     telnet: connect to address 208.91.197.27: Connection timed out
> That too is normal...since you would not expect them to accept telnet service connects on the default port of 23.
>
>>   
>>
>>     [bobg at box9 ~]$ wget http://secure.newegg.com/test.aspx
>>     --2012-10-18 10:53:18--  http://secure.newegg.com/test.aspx
>>     Resolving secure.newegg.com... 208.91.197.27
>>     Connecting to secure.newegg.com|208.91.197.27|:80... connected.
>>     HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> OK....  Now this I find "interesting" ....
>
> On your system secure.newegg.com seems to resolve to 208.91.197.27 while on my system it resolves to 204.14.213.188.
>
> and....
>
> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ host 208.91.197.27
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
> what is your resolv.conf set to?
>
>
Normally set to 208.67.220.220, 208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.222

I just tried 8.8.8.8 as suggested and 12.189.32.61 which is the Wildblue 
dns. the error still occurs.

I also tried the address you found:

    [bobg at box9 ~]$ wget 204.14.213.188
    --2012-10-18 12:13:39--  http://204.14.213.188/
    Connecting to 204.14.213.188:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
    Location: http://www.newegg.com/Index.aspx [following]
    --2012-10-18 12:13:40--  http://www.newegg.com/Index.aspx
    Resolving www.newegg.com... 208.91.197.27
    Connecting to www.newegg.com|208.91.197.27|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 271 [text/html]
    Saving to: `index.html'

    100%[===================================================>]
    271         --.-K/s   in 0s

    2012-10-18 12:13:41 (7.21 MB/s) - `index.html' saved [271/271]

    [bobg at box9 ~]$ cat index.html
    <html>
    <head>
    <meta name="robots" content="noarchive" />
    <meta name="googlebot" content="nosnippet" />
    </head>
    <body>
    <div align=center>
    <h3>Error. Page cannot be displayed. Please contact your service
    provider for more details.  (6)</h3>
    </div>
    </body>

Of course it errors in Firefox as well.

Bob

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