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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:53:10
Message-Id: 58965d8a0908010753l56e8f8b1sde1fa87d314b1a@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi,
2
3 For some reason, YouTube doesn't work for me in some web browsers. It
4 acts like the hostname is not found. When I do host "www.youtube.com"
5 lookups and tcptraceroute to port 80 and everything else I have tried
6 to diagnose it seems to work just fine. I'm not using a proxy, I don't
7 have youtube in my hosts file, and I haven't encountered this problem
8 with any other website, including all of Google's other sites which I
9 use frequently. I'm totally baffled.
10
11 Loads perfectly fine in:
12 lynx
13 links (text and graphical mode)
14 Opera
15
16 Does not load at all in:
17 Seamonkey
18 Konqueror
19 Firefox
20
21 I tried it at work from a Windows machine (and a different ISP) using
22 all of the above browsers and it worked fine. So I have no idea.
23
24 I have not tried to do a wireshark capture yet.
25
26 Has anyone seen this before or have any hints for me? I'm not a big
27 YouTube person so I'm more interested in why this is happening than
28 seeing videos. This has happened in the past with YouTube and after a
29 few weeks it started working normally again. Not sure how long it has
30 been since it stopped.
31
32 Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange issue with YouTube not working at all in some browsers Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>