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HELP: why can't I access some websites

Help please.
I can not access some websites but there's no pattern. It's just keep loading but nothing is shown.
For example: I can access Yahoo, but I cannot access Yahoomail. Other sites I cannot access for example: Realgm.com/boards, amazon.com
I've tried deinstalling reinstalling Sysgate personal firewall,
XP firewall, and also Ad-aware.
Below are netstat result to amazon.com.
What should I do?

Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP 0.0.0.0:21 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:25 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:135 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:443 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:1025 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:1027 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:1028 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:3046 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:3113 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:3531 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:5000 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 61.94.168.80:3046 137.132.164.7:3531 ESTABLISHED
TCP 61.94.168.80:3113 207.171.183.16:80 SYN_SENT
TCP 127.0.0.1:3001 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:3002 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:3003 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:3006 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
UDP 0.0.0.0:135 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:445 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:500 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:1026 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:1029 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:3012 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:3031 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:3032 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:3456 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:3531 *:*
UDP 61.94.168.80:123 *:*
UDP 61.94.168.80:1900 *:*
UDP 61.94.168.80:2234 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:123 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:1900 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:2234 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:3017 *:*

Tere Watson
Friday, January 9, 2004

In case you try this form work I know at least one company with a policy of not allowing employees to access the Yahoo email.

coresi
Friday, January 9, 2004

Are you at home?

Does it happen all the time; if it only happens sometime it's probably a question of connectivity being lost.

Remember that the home page will often be cached, but the page within the siite that you want to reach won't.

Stephen Jones
Friday, January 9, 2004

Sorry,

You're not allowed to read your email while I'm reading it. Please wait a few minutes while I finish up...

d00d
Friday, January 9, 2004

Yes I'm at home using dial-up connection.
It happen often for the past week.
I've asked other users of the ISP and they said they have no problems.

Tere Watson
Friday, January 9, 2004

Do you have a hosts file in your Windows subdirectory? Try renaming your hosts file to something like hosts.xxx and see if the problem persists.

J. D. Trollinger
Friday, January 9, 2004

Can you try it with another browser?

There are parts of msdn that I cannot see with IE/Mac,
but when I copy and paste the url into Netscape it all
works fine.

VPC
Friday, January 9, 2004

I had a problem like this after I installed my DSL router, I think -- it had something to do with MTU fragmenting. Certain Web sites would display just fine, others would just seem to hang. I doubt this would apply for a dial-up connection, but just in case here's a pointer to some info:

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/794/router_mtu.html

Also, two diagnostics you might try:

nslookup www.whatever.com

will tell you if your DNS server is resolving the domain name to an IP address or if that's the problem.

tracert www.whatever.com

will show you all the hops on the way to the server, and you might be able to see your packets getting lost somewhere.

John C.
Friday, January 9, 2004

i'm new at this so i don't know anything about computers but when i go to read my yahoo mail it brings up what i have but it won't bring the message up the page stays white with nothing on it it did work at first for about 10 mos then all of a sudden its gone

Merle King
Saturday, June 12, 2004

yahoo was disinstalled and reinstalled for me but it didn't help

Merle King
Saturday, June 12, 2004

Hi,
Is there a way out to read my yahoo mail in spite of the fact that i am behind a firewall!!!
thanks

Sweet
Monday, August 16, 2004