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Re: Unable to access YouTube
It's fine :-)
The name is resolving to the IP address correctly, so it's not a virus/adware DNS intrusion problem. My best guess now is that there's some software installed on your PC that is blocking youtube.com... Any recent firewall/security stuff installed? |
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Re: Unable to access YouTube
troll,
nah, no recent firewall/security stuff added. i am on a university network. do you think they couldve killed access to youtube? is there anything else i can try to look for that will give me a headsup as to why i cant access the site? |
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Re: Unable to access YouTube
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nah, no recent firewall/security stuff added. i am on a university network. do you think they couldve killed access to youtube? is there anything else i can try to look for that will give me a headsup as to why i cant access the site? [/ QUOTE ] They could easily have killed it, especially if it's a smaller school that is constrained by bandwidth. Where do you go? If the're blocking YouTube, a simple phone call to the IT support staff would confim it for you. This isn't something they would hide (but possibly not broadcast to everyone). It was standard practice when Napster first came out, since Napster users would saturate many universities' entire Internet connections. |
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Re: Unable to access YouTube
thanks indy for the add'l help.
as an update, found the hosts file -- it didnt contain anything regarding youtube -- so i couldnt delete anything in it. youtube still not working. sadly, DD |
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Re: Unable to access YouTube
NP, glad to help.
I'd give it 70% chance your school's IT department is blocking it. Most likely for bandwidth reasons, but also possibly because people are misusing the site or are disseminating materials they shouldn't be (copyright by your school?) via the site. I'll give it 30% chance (or less) that YouTube is actively blocking your school's subnet (all IP addresses at your school). They'd do this if they were experiencing malicious behaviour that was coming from all over the subnet. Think 20 guys in a dorm posting porn all night. Something like that. If you contact the IT at your school, they wouldn't have any real reason to hide the fact that it's blocked. They'd just matter of factly tell you that YouTube is prohibited for such and such reason and point you to someone to contact if you disagree with the policy. Small chance it's your machine, but checking w/ IT is an easier first step. Second step would be to borrow a laptop and use the same connection you're currently using and seeing if the laptop can reach YouTube. |
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