Cannot get to yahoo 4

[alan12345]

This may be a stupid question.

I cannot get to

http://www.yahoo.com

as of yesterday. I get immediate "Action Canceled" and the URL points to the previous URL.

I can get to any other website.

Is this a TCP/IP issue? What happend to my computer? Only does it on my computer.

thanks!
Alan

 

[LawnBoy]

There's a small chance you've got a bad DNS entry "stuck" in your cache. You can fix this by entering

ipconfig /flushdns

at a command prompt.

If that doesn't fix it, can you ping yahoo?

 

[alan12345]

Thanks LawnBoy,

I did the ipconfig successfully. But I still got Action Canceled.

But I can successfully ping

http://www.yahoo.com.

I think you are on the right track. Any other ideas?

Thanks again!
Alan

 

[LawnBoy]

Does your HOSTS file have an entry for yahoo? If so, delete it. C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\

Are you behind a proxy server or a firewall? Do you have control of these appliances?

Any chance other software is blocking the site? (Google toolbar, antivirus, antispyware, etc.)

 

[alan12345]

I deleted the hosts files. Still have the problem.

I am behind a firewall. Seems that Internet Explorer is having the problem since I can successfully ping yahoo.

Yesterday I logged onto Microsoft E Learning site. I had to install and ActiveX to run the viewer that E Learning uses. Could this have caused this problem?

Also tonite we are going to reboot our server. Would this help?

I appreciate all your suggestions. Any other ideas?

Thanks so much

 

[LawnBoy]

You need a hosts file. I meant delete the entry for yahoo, not the whole file.

It wouldn't be the first time an ActiveX control screwed something up... and the timing is right.

 

[jneiberger]

Did anything change on the firewall? We had a problem last year with Yahoo (and I've heard of this happening elsewhere.) The issue at the time was that we did a software upgrade on the firewall and it started denying incoming UDP DNS responses larger than 512 bytes. The back-end systems that provide DNS services for Yahoo use eDNS extensions that support UDP responses larger than 512 bytes, but your firewall may be dropping them.

It's just a guess. I seem to recall that we could get to mail.yahoo.com, just not yahoo.com. Check the firewall logs to see if it's dropping any DNS responses.

 

[alan12345]

Anyway I can uninstall that ActiveX?

I don't think the firewall changed.

Do you think tonite's server reboot would cure this?

Thanks.

 

[LawnBoy]

MS knowledgebase article on removing ActiveX controls:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154850/en-us

 

[alan12345]

I fixed it!!!

I uninstalled both of :

1. .NET Tunnel Client
2. EBLVD

And Yahoo came back.

I am pretty sure that .NET Tunnel Client was causing the problem.

Thanks for your help! I needed .NET Tunnel client to help with a Microsoft E Learning class. My problems with Yahoo apparently started when I installed .NET TC.

So I guess we all have to beware of .NET TC.

Thanks for all your help!!

 

[fartingfrog]

Firefox solves all of the problems IE causes.

 

[alan12345]

Hey thanks everyone for your help.

I solved the problem by uninstalling both .NET tunnel client and eblvd.com.

I suspect that eblvd was the culprit since I have reinstalled .NET tunnel client.

Anyway, now I can Yahoo all day!

Thanks!
Alan

 

[LawnBoy]

Firefox solves all of the problems IE causes.

lol, almost. Since IE is part of the OS, it's always running. I would change that to:

Linux solves all the problems IE causes.