In article <tomstiller-4ADD01.07161116072008@news.verizon.net>, Tom Stiller <tomstiller@yahoo.com> wrote:
> In article <1ik63vz.1wwzbr119e9hzmN%danspam@f2s.com>, > danspam@f2s.com (Daniel Cohen) wrote: > > > A while ago I suddenly had trouble connecting with Safari, after getting > > email with Eudora a few minutes earlier. > > > > Network Diagnostics reported OK status (green light) on Built-in > > Ethernet, Network Settings, and ISP, but orange or red on Internet and > > Server. > > > > Cured by rebooting my router. > > > > But I would still like to know the cause. My guess was a glitch in the > > ISP's DNS server. I did find it a bit odd that I had an OK connection to > > the ISP but not to the internet. > > What do you mean by "the internet"? If you have no access to a > functioning DNS server then you have lost the ability to translate a > domain name to an IP address, but not the ability to contact another > host by IP address directly.
It does say 'Internet' in Network Diagnostics. A similar thing happened to me and Safari. All green lights, but Safari couldn't connect to the Internet. Mail, MT-NW and even FF were OK (the first two use different servers of course). My ISP is eating a smaller ISP and was dicking around with servers I guess. Turned out if I disabled the proxy server (PAC file) Safari was OK again. Strange though, because FF uses the same proxy server settings, both in its preferences and system preferences.
