Mozilla no access to certain sites

[Chadley Wilson]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 07:32, Edward wrote:
> Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > G'day to all
> > 
> > The weirdest thing ever.
> > I can go to any website I want, but if I go to www.absadirect.co.za
> > which is an on-line banking site, I get an error saying host could not
> > be found. If I try on my other fedora PC it also doesn't work.
> > Since I am behind a proxy I have tried logging in as a different user
> > and it still returns the same error.
> > 
> > But if I go on my windows XPlease it works perfectly! :-/
> > 
> > Is it possible that I could have a virus blocking me from the website.
> > A virus,,,,, Linux, mmmm!
> 
> Nope - I guarantee you it's not that.
> 
> Is the XP box behind a proxy as well? Can you go directly (i.e. 
> circumvent the proxy)?
Yes behind the same proxy and firewall using the same user name and
passwd.
> 
> Reason I ask is because online banking is very sensitive to proxies and 
> fireballs sometimes. I speak from experience as I have two customers who 
> cannot access online banking when their Norton Internet Security is enabled.
> 
What makes it a funny problem is it was working on thursday and I
haven't made any changes to this box?

> Regards,
> Ed.
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