Cannot access main Yahoo website

[Guest]

I am having an odd problem with a computer that I built and installed for my
dad. He can get browse the web fine in most cases, but he cannot go to
www.yahoo.com. It seems that he can go to most other sites. Here are the
pertinent bits of info that I can think of:

Windows XP Home Edition
Connecting through a DSL router
Norton AntiVirus 2006
Windows Firewall is off
- Go to www.yahoo.com, using IE7. It says “Internet Explorer cannot display
the webpage.â€
- Go to www.yahoo.com, using Firefox 1.5. It says “The connection has timed
outâ€
- Go to my.yahoo.com, mail.yahoo.com, calendar.yahoo.com using any browser
and it works ok.
- Go to any other site and these other sites can be viewed without a problem.
- Other computers connected to that same DSL router work ok.
- Tried accessing www.yahoo.com through an anonymous proxy site. Works fine.
- Tried taking the computer to another network in a different location. No
change.
- Tried clearing temporary Internet files, cookies, history, and form data.
No change.
- Tried adding www.yahoo.com to Trusted sites. No change
- Tried clearing SSL state. No change.
- Disabled Norton AntiVirus. No change.
- Scanned using Adaware and quarantined the adware found. No change.
- Tried flushing the DNS by typing “ipconfig /flushdns†at a command prompt.
No change.

Are there any other places I can look that would keep the computer from
accessing this site?

 

[Terry Deckard]

Try opening a DOS prompt and pinging www.yahoo.com. At the DOS prompt type
"ping www.yahoo.com" without the quotes. If you get a proper reply then
your DNS is resolving properly. If this ping does not resolve then you have
a DNS problem. Try typing 69.147.114.210 into your web browser to see if
you can access yahoo.com using the IP address. If you can access the site
using the IP address then DNS is the problem.

 

[Guest]

Well, I am able to ping www.yahoo.com without a problem. However, going to
69.147.114.210 does not work any better than going to www.yahoo.com.

Thanks for your help. Any other thoughts? What else can I try?

 

[keith]

Like Geek-EE, I am having a problem getting access to www.yahoo.com.
My computer is a year or so old and ran fine until recently. I don't
know what happened to change things, maybe Microsoft's automatic
updating service or something. I can ping the living daylights out of
yahoo, but the main web page for yahoo times out. No other website is
so affected.

SOME DATA AND THINGS TRIED:

Windows XP Professional Edition with all updates
Connected via Ethernet to home router to DSL modem.
No other computers off the router share this problem.
Internet Properties:
Security: Set Internet to Medium. No Change.
Content: Cleared SSL state. No Change.
Norton AntiVirus 2007
I removed all Norton stuff and tried it wihout any Norton. No
Change.
I put it back in. Re-updated it. No change.
Windows Firewall is off. (On or Off-- makes no difference)
IE 7.0: Yahoo times out "Internet Explorer cannot display the
webpage"
I ran "Diagnose Connections Problems" that appears with the Timed Out
notice. No errors.
Firefox 2.0.0.3: Yahoo times out "The connection has timed out"
ping: Yahoo gets here in about 50 ms
I CAN access:
my.yahoo.com
login.yahoo.com
But groups.yahoo.com times out like www.yahoo.com.
No other website appears to have this problem.
Microsoft's Spyware catcher doesn't find anything either.
Tried adding www.yahoo.com to Trusted Sites. No change.
Cleared all internet cookies, history, & files. No change.
ipconfig release and renew. No change.
Checked Java Updates: All current.

Sprinkled wiffle dust all over. No change. Allergies worse, though.

Any help resolving this would certainly be appreciated.

I hope Gek-EE has figured it out because I think we have the same
problem.