My internet connection is fine, but when I try to access my Yahoo Mail, the home page will load fine, then when I click mail it gives me the "cannot display" page. The same goes for Facebook. You can access them by USING a proxy, but I would like to try and fix the problem. Any suggestions?What OS are you using and version web browser?

What browser, Windows version?FIRST off, let me say I'm not in FAVOR of censorship or blocking "good" sites, e.g. yahoo mail, facebook.

So... What's the story here? Are you on a business, school, or other public network where the "authorities" might be trying to control your access? Or is this a home network with no KNOWN blocking scheme in place?

Is it not possible that certain sites are busy and your access attempts are "timing out"?

Is it possible your organization or ISP is blocking them by not resolving the web site to an IP address?

You can try using the OpenDNS servers for DNS name resolution. Hmmm... Looking at the following link I see that they may do some "filtering" and keep logs of all DNS name resolution requests. It's possible your organization has access to these logs.

http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13554_1-9834579-33.html


At any RATE I've had some success accessing blocked sites by using outside DNS name server addresses such as OpenDNS:

208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220