11-03-2010, 11:39 AM

Hello everyone,

I just received my new Mac's yesterday. I converted from the dark side and have replaced all my computers with Mac's. I purchased 2 27" iMac's, one of each 13, 15 and 17 MBP's and the new MBA. I finished setting all of them up yesterday after taking the day off and have run into a problem. Yahoo will not load on any of the Mac's. I thought it may have something to do with Safari, so I downloaded FireFox with no luck. Every other website loads with the exception of Yahoo. This is happening on every Mac. I know it has nothing to do with my firewall or router, because Yahoo will load on a Windows machine that is on my network.

Help! Is it a flaw?

11-03-2010, 11:45 AM

What do you mean "Yahoo will not load?" The website? The messenger? Either way there should be nothing on Mac preventing either of those from working.

11-03-2010, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by mdfuller

What do you mean "Yahoo will not load?" The website? The messenger? Either way there should be nothing on Mac preventing either of those from working.

Sorry about that....

The website Yahoo will not load. I've tried it from Safari's and Firefox's menu. Tried typing it. Went to Google and googled it and clicked the link. The browser just sits there and times out on every single machine. Again no problems with any other website, just Yahoo and only on the Mac's. Windows machines on the network load right up.

11-03-2010, 11:54 AM

I can almost guarantee you this has nothing to do with the Mac's. Do you have a Windoze machine you can test? I have seen a certain satellite provider (rhymes with child boo) put some proxy information on the computer when you load their "mandatory" software. In this case the proxy was entered and certain sites were unreachable until it was removed.

11-03-2010, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by mdfuller

I can almost guarantee you this has nothing to do with the Mac's. Do you have a Windoze machine you can test? I have seen a certain satellite provider (rhymes with child boo) put some proxy information on the computer when you load their "mandatory" software. In this case the proxy was entered and certain sites were unreachable until it was removed.

I still have my Window's machines (HP and Dell's) hooked up. They all can connect to Yahoo with no delay. Again, all the Mac's right out of the box would not connect using Safari. The only thing I installed on the Mac's was Firefox and no luck there either. I thought it may have something to do with the network, but I took them off my wireless in my house and connected to my Verizon MiFi and still no luck. Can't figure it out.

11-03-2010, 12:11 PM

A quick search of google brings me to Apple - Support - Discussions - Cannot connect to google, yahoo, etc? ... which basically says it leads back to PeerGuardian. They also suggest flushing the DNS cache.

11-03-2010, 12:18 PM

So you are saying this site will not load. Yahoo!

11-03-2010, 12:18 PM

Originally Posted by s2odin

A quick search of google brings me to Apple - Support - Discussions - Cannot connect to google, yahoo, etc? ... which basically says it leads back to PeerGuardian. They also suggest flushing the DNS cache.

I will try that.

Thanks.