Mozilla no access to certain sites

[Dean Mumby]

Chadley Wilson wrote:

>G'day to all
>
>The weirdest thing ever.
>I can go to any website I want, but if I go to www.absadirect.co.za
>which is an on-line banking site, I get an error saying host could not
>be found. If I try on my other fedora PC it also doesn't work.
>Since I am behind a proxy I have tried logging in as a different user
>and it still returns the same error.
>
>But if I go on my windows XPlease it works perfectly! :-/
>
>Is it possible that I could have a virus blocking me from the website.
>A virus,,,,, Linux, mmmm!
>
>  
>

www.absadirect.co.za is just used as a round-robin dns alias for there 
servers , have you tried going to www.absa.co.za and following the link 
to on-line banking.
I have fc1 with mozilla 1.6 and have never had a problem getting into 
absa except when there servers were overloaded.

Dean