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Since weeks I cannot reach a website on my desktop (iMac Sierra). Officially the website is reachable (Internet check says the site is on). I tried with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, always time out. I tried with VPN (different servers) and without VPN. Same, time out. But on my iPhone without even VPN, loads immediately. I tried restarts, everything. How is this possible? Only happens with that website...
Press and hold down the shift key while opening the Safari browser, this should clear out Safari caches.
Or see if there is an option in Safari> Preferences> Advanced to show the Develop menu, there should
be a Empty Caches option there.
Open your other browsers and see if the have a clear caches option.
Another way to clear caches is to restart your mac in Safe Mode.
Press and hold down the shift key while opening the Safari browser, this should clear out Safari caches.
Or see if there is an option in Safari> Preferences> Advanced to show the Develop menu, there should
be a Empty Caches option there.
Open your other browsers and see if the have a clear caches option.
Another way to clear caches is to restart your mac in Safe Mode.
Might have been useful if you shared the URL of the website you are trying to reach.
As you are posting in the macOS Sierra community I am going to assume your using macOS Sierra,
in the case of Safari as it is an older version in macOS Sierra it could be it does not meet the security
protocols for opening the website. This may be the same with your other browsers.
Have you tried contacting the website on your phone and asking them if there is a reason why
you cannot connect on your mac.
The site: http://www.settimananews.it/informazione-internazionale/whose-afghanistan/ as well as http://www.settimananews.it/
Do note it does not open on all browsers I have, not only Safari, Yes on iMAC with Sierra.
GilbertVK Said:
"Browser cannot reach: Do note it does not open on all browsers I have, not only Safari, Yes on iMAC with Sierra."
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Content Restrictions?:
Seeing that site, I wonder if contents restrictions are taking any part. So, try creating a new Administrator user. See if it then works.
As I wrote in my question, I do use VPN. But I tried VPN off, using different servers with the VPN, even an Italian one. Nothing works. Normally VPN off/on and switching countries works very well. And weird, only happens to this website (and I surf A LOT). And with ALL browsers I mentioned. Content is normal. And on my iPhone without VPN immediate download. Some say I should clear cache somewhere but no idea where as it happens on all browsers. Maybe I need a program to see how I (try) connect to the website, tracing the route... Weird weird weird
OK, did again and traceroute cannot reach:
traceroute www.settimananews.it
traceroute to www.settimananews.it (185.96.204.128), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.622 ms 0.516 ms 0.415 ms
2 123.120.160.1 (123.120.160.1) 55.168 ms 113.628 ms 7.215 ms
3 123.126.26.133 (123.126.26.133) 3.097 ms 2.847 ms 4.242 ms
4 * 123.126.0.229 (123.126.0.229) 3.928 ms
124.65.194.81 (124.65.194.81) 3.112 ms
5 219.158.18.70 (219.158.18.70) 9.852 ms
219.158.9.202 (219.158.9.202) 4.892 ms
219.158.5.154 (219.158.5.154) 7.760 ms
6 219.158.3.178 (219.158.3.178) 9.641 ms 9.926 ms
219.158.3.30 (219.158.3.30) 9.613 ms
7 219.158.16.98 (219.158.16.98) 169.504 ms
219.158.103.6 (219.158.103.6) 150.749 ms
219.158.16.98 (219.158.16.98) 165.324 ms
8 6-1-9.ear1.losangeles6.level3.net (4.26.2.161) 152.510 ms 147.311 ms 148.117 ms
9 ae-1-10.bear1.milan2.level3.net (4.69.211.17) 299.261 ms 297.104 ms 299.807 ms
10 elogic-s.r.bear1.milan2.level3.net (213.249.127.62) 298.784 ms 296.669 ms 302.071 ms
11 fwedafg01-x1.elogic.cloud (185.146.163.1) 294.678 ms 296.493 ms 297.504 ms
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and so on, meaning it got stuck.
But then I tried to open: settimananews.it in Safari and Chrome
Guess what, it worked.
Now, isn't that weird.... Mind you, the full link worked on iPhone.
So we can say case closed. I informed the Italians their website might have some issues with their DNS settings. I can reach the site, switching off VPN and using "settimananews.it" without the Http.....
I have just booted up into macOS Sierra and clicked on the link you provided.
There was no problem opening the website here on safari ver 12.1.2.
Is your Mac hiding behind any VPNs.
I did a traceroute on the terminal. Weird result:
Gilberts-iMac:~ gilbertvk$ traceroute http://www.settimananews.it
traceroute: unknown host http://www.settimananews.it
Gilberts-iMac:~ gilbertvk$
Browser cannot reach
