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Group: comp.sys.mac.comm · Group Profile
Author: Chris Ridd
Date: Jul 26, 2008 04:51

On 2008-07-26 12:28:35 +0100, Shawn Hirn comcast.net> said:
> In article bt.com>,
> "Steve Thackery" nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to help out a friend who has two Macs on a network connected via
>> ADSL to the internet. I should warn you in advance that I'm not a Mac
>> user!).
>>
>> They've got a really weird problem on one of their machines (a G5 running
>> Tiger 10.4.11). It refuses to display certain web pages, and refuses to
>> download their emails.
>>
>> They have a domain hosted by me2uweb.com, and use the SMTP and POP servers
>> on their domain for their emails. For some reason, their Mail program
>> simply won't connect to their me2uweb email servers. Interestingly, they
>> also have an email account with BT Internet, and it will get and send emails
>> on that account just fine.
>>
>> I obviously thought there was something wrong with the account settings in
>> Mail, but they are perfectly correct.
>>
>> I then discovered that Safari won't display any web pages that are hosted by
>> me2uweb! However, Safari will happily display pages anywhere else on the
>> Web.
>>
>> I immediately thought that me2uweb.com were blocking their IP address for
>> some reason, but they assure me they are not. In any case, my friends'
>> other Mac, which sits on the very same network behind the very same ADSL
>> router, works perfectly! It will send and receive emails from their me2uweb
>> email servers, it will display web pages from me2uweb-hosted domains as well
>> as everywhere else.
>>
>> I believe that their router provides their IP address, so if it were blocked
>> by me2uweb it should block both machines.
>>
>> In summary, one of the Macs on their network refuses to play ball with
>> anything hosted by me2uweb (web pages or email servers), but works fine in
>> all other respects. The other Mac on their network works perfectly,
>> including with me2uweb.
>>
>> I am completely stumped. Could anyone make any suggestions? Is this a
>> known problem? I'm afraid I'm totally in the dark when it comes to Macs!
>
> For starters, compare all the network settings on both Macs. The network
> settings are accessible via "system preferences" which is available
> under the pull down Apple menu.

Could the problem be name resolution? Check the /etc/hosts file on the
misbehaving machine to see if someone's (misguidedly) hardwired some
bogus IP addresses for their ISP in it.

Cheers,

Chris
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