Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Dale wrote: >> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>> >>> My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: >>> >>> 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) >>> 2. They have previously sold user's

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> >> My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: >> >> 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) >> 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to >> advertisers. They claim to have s

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > > > My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: > > 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) > 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to > advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but... > 3. They "hijack" DNS, making every in

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 01 August 2009 18:56:24 Paul Hartman wrote: > Following that thought -- I wonder if there is a special YouTube > server for my ISP and the standard/outside YouTube server farm is > blocked? I've read about Google hosting servers at or near major ISPs > to reduce the number of hops, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 01 August 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: > My ISP's DNS servers have 3 strikes against them: > > 1. It is slow, slow, slow, slow, slow... and did I mention slow? :) > 2. They have previously sold user's DNS/browsing history to > advertisers. They claim to have stopped, but... > 3. They "hija

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 01 August 2009 16:53:08 Paul Hartman wrote: >> Hi, >> >> For some reason, YouTube doesn't work for me in some web browsers. It >> acts like the hostname is not found. When I do host "www.youtube.com" >> lookups and tcptraceroute to

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 01 August 2009 16:53:08 Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason, YouTube doesn't work for me in some web browsers. It > acts like the hostname is not found. When I do host "www.youtube.com" > lookups and tcptraceroute to port 80 and everything else I have tried > to diagnose it se

[gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers

2009-08-01 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, For some reason, YouTube doesn't work for me in some web browsers. It acts like the hostname is not found. When I do host "www.youtube.com" lookups and tcptraceroute to port 80 and everything else I have tried to diagnose it seems to work just fine. I'm not using a proxy, I don't have youtube