On 02/20/10 19:36, MattB wrote: > On Feb 20, 2:02 am, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 02/20/10 13:32, MattB wrote: >> >> >> >>> I'm using the network in my own apartment. Not the campus's. >>> Moreover, my mac's MAC address is different from the MAC address shown >>> by my router, but as I said I'm also blocked when using my friend's >>> wireless router at his apartment. >> >>> So it must be my mac's MAC, and not the router's MAC, that's being >>> blocked, right? >> >>> But ALSO -- is it my ISP that's blocking the mac's MAC (and not the >>> school), since I can't raise ANY url's from python when I'm on >>> wireless? >> >> MAC or IP blocking can't be the reason, as the OP stated, he can use >> Firefox just fine. >> >> Can you access, say,http://www.google.comfrom urllib or mechanize? >> >> If you can't access *any website* using urllib/mechanize but you can >> with a browser and you're on a unix-based machine, you probably have the >> same problem as I used to have. Check whether you used the same hostname >> in /etc/conf.d/hostname and /etc/hosts (or wherever your distro saves >> its hostname configurations, I use Gentoo); after editing those files >> reboot (there are ways to avoid reboot, but rebooting guarantees the >> conf file is reread). >> >> Check the hostname by running this python script: >> >> import socket >> hn = socket.gethostname() >> print hn >> print socket.gethostbyname(hn) # should be 127.0.0.1 > > Lie, > > Wow. Strangely, that script returned 192.168.1.106. However, in Snow > Leopard's airport settings, if I click on 'advanced' and then > 'proxies', the default proxy for 'http' is 127.0.0.1:4444 (and in > these settings, the 'use proxy for http' is checked). > > I just tried checking the unix files you mentioned. In etc/hosts, the > following info is displayed: > > ## > # Host Database > # > # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface > # when the system is booting. Do not change this entry. > ## > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost > ::1 localhost > fe80::1%lo0 localhost > > > Not sure if these are what I'm looking for -- I'm new to unix so I may > need a bit more hand-holding here.
Try the alternatives in this site: http://movealong.org/hostname.html > Also found a file called ntp-restrict.conf, containing: > > # Access restrictions documented in ntp.conf(5) and > # http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/AccessRestrictions > # Limit network machines to time queries only > > restrict default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery > restrict -6 default kod nomodify notrap nopeer noquery > > # localhost is unrestricted > restrict 127.0.0.1 > restrict -6 ::1 > > includefile /private/etc/ntp.conf Not sure if ntp-restrict.conf is a red herring here since its name implies it's something for NTP (Network Time Protocol, used for time synchronization) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
