News outage?

[Weird Harold]

For the last hour or two, I haven' been able to access any US, UK, or Australian news sites.

The only news stories or sites I've been able to access are Xinhua and stuff.co.nz

Anyone else having trouble getting hteir news fix today?

 

[Guest]

For the last hour or two, I haven' been able to access any US, UK, or Australian news sites.

The only news stories or sites I've been able to access are Xinhua and stuff.co.nz

Anyone else having trouble getting hteir news fix today?

Nope.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

There be news there.

Lou

 

[Colleen Thomas]

You can get reuters or the Ap thorugh Yahoo harold.

-Colly

 

[Weird Harold]

You can get reuters or the Ap thorugh Yahoo harold.

-Colly

Nope, I can't get Yahoos News to load, nor Reuters.com nor the AP site, and he link Lou provided doesn't even ask for a cookie after two minutes of waiting.






It's only news sites and only the primarlily English language news services that I can't access. Stories I've accessed earlier today will show up from my temporary internet files, but refrshing them just results in a blank page with a little hour-glass spinning along next to the cursor.

It's apparently problem with my system or ISP, but I have no idea how or why it decided I didn't need my news fix this morning.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

It loads fine for me.

 

[Guest]

Nope, I can't get Yahoos News to load, nor Reuters.com nor the AP site, and he link Lou provided doesn't even ask for a cookie after two minutes of waiting.






It's only news sites and only the primarlily English language news services that I can't access. Stories I've accessed earlier today will show up from my temporary internet files, but refrshing them just results in a blank page with a little hour-glass spinning along next to the cursor.

It's apparently problem with my system or ISP, but I have no idea how or why it decided I didn't need my news fix this morning.

Strange! Sounds like your browser is corrupt. I know you've probably already thought of this, but have you tried a re-boot? Often works for me when things get screwy.

Lou

 

[Weird Harold]

It loads fine for me.

I first noticed the problem with this link:

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2004/10/07/mural_spelling041007.html

After I tried that link (Which still hasn't loaded or timed out after waiting 20 minutes or so) I haven' been able to get to most news sites or stories -- but ONLY most news sites or stories.


I guess it's time to re-run ad-aware and a full virus scan.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Harold,

Is it just news? Have you asked your provider? Don’t any of these URLs work?

http://www.reuters.com/

http://www.ap.org/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

http://abcnews.go.com/

http://www.cbsnews.com/

http://www.cnn.com/

http://www.foxnews.com/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

http://www.pbs.org/news/

http://www.thepaperboy.com.au/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

http://www.independent.co.uk/

http://www.chicagotribune.com/

http://www.nytimes.com/

http://www.latimes.com/

http://www.usatoday.com/

http://www.guerrillanews.com/

http://www.alternet.org/

http://www.tompaine.com/

http://www.disinfo.com/site/

http://www.buzzflash.com/

http://www.drudgereport.com/

If your provider claims no problem, and these URLs don’t work, try checking your cookie setting.


Edited to add: Your CBC link worked for me.

 

[wildsweetone]

Hey Harold,

No news is good news!




try this for your kiwi fix...

New Zealand Herald

 

[Weird Harold]

Harold,

Is it just news? Have you asked your provider? Don’t any of these URLs work?

http://www.reuters.com/

http://www.ap.org/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

http://abcnews.go.com/

http://www.cbsnews.com/

http://www.cnn.com/

http://www.foxnews.com/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

http://www.independent.co.uk/

http://www.usatoday.com/

The problem was apparently something on my system or it was a temporary problem somewhere else. Everything appears to be working now.

I was offline running system checks when you posted, but yes, it was ONLY news sites and none of the ones above worked. The others may or may not have worked but weren't tried until afte the problem went away.

 

[wildsweetone]

Ohhh a news blackout... the end of the world was nigh...