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#1 2009-08-28 22:51:16
- sebleblanc
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- From: Montréal, Canada
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Only firefox and opera can access the internet
Hi, I'm having problems with my college's wireless connection.
I have no trouble accessing the internet with web browsers (Opera, Firefox, Konqueror) but other applications (Thunderbird, Filezilla, Pacman/Yaourt, Pidgin, even standard unix utilities like ping or whois) cannot access it. It is really weird since Firefox can access FTP servers, but not Filezilla.
I access the wi-fi by manually starting wpa_supplicant and dhclient. It works perfectly at home.
Could it be that Firefox does network address translation in a different way than other programs?
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#2 2009-08-29 04:39:34
- neddie_seagoon
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Re: Only firefox and opera can access the internet
What errors do you get when trying to use things like ping? Also are your browsers configured to use a proxy at all?
Also check that you can connect to websites from the commandline with 'telnet google.com 80' - it should connect without error.
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#3 2009-08-29 05:22:40
- djszapi
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Re: Only firefox and opera can access the internet
Hello sebleblanc!
Does it occur all pages or just for some ?
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#4 2009-09-01 14:38:52
- sebleblanc
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Re: Only firefox and opera can access the internet
djszapi: all pages.
neddie_seagoon: every program will display an error message about name resolving. Only Firefox and Opera can access the web.
It is surely related to my college's network, however I find it weird that only web browsers can access the internet.
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