By executing the following script I could watch when the www2.harrisdirect.com became available and then I would login. while (1>0) > do > ping -c 1 www2.harrisdirect.com > sleep 10 > done PING www2.harrisdirect.com (63.72.61.96) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 63.72.61.96: icmp_seq=0 ttl=105 time=83.6 ms Why is this site playing peek a boo, is this some kind of security feature, or a linux problem. Alex On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 21:27, Alexander Valdez wrote: > Sorry made a mistake, the web page is harrisdirect.com no www prefix. > But that's not the problem. Try going to harrisdirect.com and then > clicking on the login link. > > Alex > > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 20:42, Francine Valdez wrote: > > The home website is www.harrisdirect.com. When you click login it trys to > > connect to www2.harrisdirect.com using > > https protocol. > > > > I asked harrisdirect support to look at it but the reply was "we don't > > support linux" . They still seemed willing to look at it more if I desired > > to persue it further. > > > > Yes I can ping it (www2.harrisdirect.com) and some times can even log in > > successfully. When I do log in eventually I the connection is lost and I > > cannot continue to do research on a stock. > > > > I disabled the firewall, but that did not help so I renabled it. > > > > Try logging in and see if you get the "www2.harrisdirect.com not found" > > error. > > > > Thanks James let me know if you need any more info. > > > > Alex > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Wilkinson [SMTP:james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 9:44 AM > > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: Secure Login Problem > > > > Alexander Valdez wrote: > > > This problem occurs on FC2 and not FC1. > > > Problem occurs on all 4 machines installed with FC2. > > > > > > With mozilla I can get to the home page but when I hit the login link I > > > get the error www2.xxxxx.com cannot be found error. > > > > > > With FC2 I can login fine to other secure sites but not this particular > > > one. > > > > You haven't got any answers, partly because you haven't given much in > > the way of details, and partly because by xxing out the domain, we can't > > look. > > > > Can you resolve www2.xxxxx.com? Can you ping it? > > > > James. > > > > -- > > E-mail address: james@ | A woodpigeon would, If a woodpigeon could, > > westexe.demon.co.uk | But a woodpigeon can't, So it won't. > > | A woodpigeon could, If a woodpigeon would, > > | But a woodpigeon doesn't want to. So it doesn't. > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > >