Help with OS X- can't get to all websites

Factual Questions
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Ok- It’s the ticking timebomb scenario, there’s something I want to hear and record on my Mac in…1 hr 45 min. For some reason, I cannot get the the www.dr.dk which is the site of the National Danish Radio.

I cannot ping www.dr.dk . When I do a traceroute, here’s what I get-

traceroute to www.dr.dk (195.137.194.128), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 8.589 ms 1.286 ms 1.171 ms
2 77.75.160.129.customers.telelet.dk (77.75.160.129) 12.845 ms 30.151 ms 2.980 ms
3 77.75.167.137.nat.telelet.dk (77.75.167.137) 6.769 ms 4.690 ms 9.518 ms
4 ge-vlan-4087.bgp2.ip.telelet.net (77.75.166.249) 3.235 ms 11.283 ms 13.994 ms
5 ge-vlan-4091.bgp1.ip.telelet.net (77.75.166.253) 8.012 ms 3.256 ms 3.084 ms
6 ge2-13-1000m.alb2nxc7.ip.tele.dk (195.215.109.5) 11.432 ms 7.460 ms 25.772 ms
7 cpe.ge-0-3-0-159.bynxj1.customer.tele.dk (80.198.90.34) 6.934 ms 6.542 ms 17.963 ms
8 195.85.253.13 (195.85.253.13) 5.965 ms 137.687 ms 204.838 ms
9 * * *
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15 * * *
etc etc etc

I have no firewalls running. I’m runnin 10.4.11 . If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

-BB

2

Have you tried more than one browser (Safari…Firefox…Camino)?

3

Yes, this happens in Safari, Firefox and IE Exploder. Also, I should have mentioned that a PC here can get on the website in question, no problem.

4

http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dr.dk%2Fhjaelp%2Fdrdktv%2F20070207113838.htm&sl=da&tl=en&history_state0=

Is any of the info there relevant to seeing the page (like needing Flip4Mac?)

5

Well I can’t ping www.dr.dk, but their website loads, so ping isn’t a good diagnostic.
Traceroute also fails.

I’m running 10.5.8, Safari.

Do you have a custom Hosts file by any chance?

6

This would have to be name service issues.

First of all try this:

http://195.137.194.128

That’s the IP address of www.dr.dk. See if you can get to it that way. If you can, then it’s a problem with name lookup. If not, then there is something stopping you from this particular address.

Open the terminal (It’s under the Applications/Utilities folder), and type in the following commands:

cd /etc cat hosts

Are there any lines besides “local”? Don’t include the lines that start with “#” those are comments.

7

I doubt it’s a DNS issue, since it as resolved correctly by traceroute.

8

I had something like this recently on my PC - it turned out to be the MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) size setting on the router - but routers aren’t the only devices to have this configuration setting - Network adaptors may have it too.

I’m not sure where to go looking for the settings in your particular case, but maybe this is some kind of helpful pointer… maybe.

9

Hey everyone- just thought i should report in and say that the problem is resolved! I feel really stupid, but I updated the system software and everything was fine. Sorry, my bad- I should have made sure that it was all updated, but the thing is I THOUGHT it was updated. I was sure. I checked merely out of desperation!

-BB