[Novalug] Anyone else for whom Arlington County Public Schools website DOESN'T work in linux? was: Arlington County Public Schools website: Windows only? (2nd attempt)

[Jean Figarella]

Change DNS servers. I've had issues with dns server from my ISP and as soon
as I use a public DNS everything works fine. Try opendns.com.

On Feb 5, 2008 5:45 AM, Craig Pennington <cpenning at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks. My problem is obviously more than just OS related (why is it a
> site my wife cares about? I could live with vmware/XP work around.) Is
> there anyone else for whom <http://www.apsva.us/aps/site/default.asp>
> hangs in linux (or OSX?) If so, I'd like to compare notes:
>
> ISP/Service: Verizon FIOS
> Router model: Actiontec MI424WR w/firmware version
> 4.0.16.1.56.0.10.7-MI424WR
>
> Alternatively, is there anyone else with either or both of FIOS (I am
> assuming, perhaps unjustifiably, that at least *some* of you who have
> had success have Verizon DSL) and the MI424WR for whom the site works
> in linux?
>
> Thanks again to everyone who has taken the time to help me diagnose this.
>
> Cheers,
>  Craig P
>
> On Feb 4, 2008 11:00 PM, william oakes <wdoakes at wildblue.net> wrote:
> > On Monday 04 February 2008 07:22, Craig Pennington wrote:
> > > My daughter is an incoming kindergardener in the Arlington County
> > > Public Schools which inspired my wife to want to research various
> > > topics on the school system's website
> > > (<http://www.apsva.us/aps/site/default.asp> or
> > > <http://arlington.k12.va.us/aps/site/default.asp>) a few months ago.
> > > She couldn't get there from her old iMac using firefox -- it just
> > > hung. I tried my iBook w/Safari and the again w/internet explorer.
> > > Same thing. Then on linux w/firefox, opera and a few others, with &
> > > without User-Agent spoofing. No luck.
> >
> > Craig,
> >
> > both sites work fine for me using Konqueror under opensuse, no problems.
> >
> > hope this helps.
> >
> > Bill...
> >
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