Can you ban a specific computer from a website? (not ip)

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Sorry for the lame title, and if this problem is mis-categorized here, but I'm really at a loss on this one.

Every computer in my home, including my iPhone, can access mileanhour.com | every hour - the finest crap on the intertubes (a very funny site i often frequent) every computer in my house except my MacBook all of a sudden. I use to go to it, everyday, now i just get a:

Safari can’t connect to the server.
Safari can’t open the page “http://www.mileanhour.com/” because Safari can’t connect to the server “www.mileanhour.com” message.


Obviously its not my ip being banned, if other devices on my home network can get on, (and let me just say you can't even post to that site so i have no idea what so ever why i WOULD be banned), but just for grins i disconnected/reset my router, and connected JUST my Macbook to it, got online fine, but still no mileanhour.com

IS it even possible to block a specific computer from connecting to a site? And if so how would i go about changing my computers ID or whatever so i can regain access?
 
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moved to correct forum.
 
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no ones has any idea on this one?
I'm still having the same problem.. only my laptop, like just it is banned from the site. Is that even possible?
 

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No, not possible.

Try clearing the cache. If that doesn't do it, reset Safari.
 
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No, not possible.

Try clearing the cache. If that doesn't do it, reset Safari.


Well thanks for the reply, but neither of those tricks did the trick. Let me reiterate my problem once again...

I'm at home, every computer and iPhone in my house (and there are many) are all connected to my home network, and all can get onto mileanhour.com | every hour - the finest crap on the intertubes, except my Macbook.


UPDATE: Same goes for weedfreebies dot com, can't go to it from my macbook either!..but again, every other device in the house has no problem going to that site either!
:Angry:

Again, ever other site i go to on my macbook is fine, hundreds of other sites load fast with no problem at all, just these 2 are all I've found so far.

this is so weird...
 

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And do you have an anti-virus, Peer Guardian, Little Snitch or anything else like that on your Mac?

And have you tried another browser - Firefox, Chrome, etc.?
 
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I have Peer Guardian, only run it when i use Vuse. It's not running now and i still can't access either site. You think this is a virus?..
 

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No, there are no viruses. Those were my guesses as to what could be preventing you from accessing only certain sites. If I was a betting man, I'd bet if you uninstalled Peer Guardian your problem would disappear.

And you didn't answer if you've tried another browser.
 
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Dude,.. you were totally right, peerG was the problem. Soon as i deinstalled it everything is fine. it was even starting to mess up paypal & ebay,com for me as well! Which like the other two sites, i frequent often. Those sites would load, but there login screens looked messed up, it was blocking all the images from them.

Is PeerGuardian crap, or did it just get a little heavy handed there? I use it when i fire up Vuse, thought it was protecting me.
 

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If you're not pirating / downloading illegal stuff, there's not really any point in that sort of protection. Not a whole lot more I can say about that app.

I've never used it, only seen the ramifications to people's systems that have had it installed.
 
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I ran it for months fine,.. saw two instances of some aspect of it running in my startup items, under accounts in sys pref,.. maybe the double was the glitch,.. maybe an update messed up,..

Would you care to elaborate on those ramifications to keep me from reinstalling it? I'd just like to know what else it can do bad. or pm me if you prefer

~peace~
 

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My question would be why use it?

Can only say I've seen A/V apps (most notably Norton with OS X) and PeerGuardian affect folks machines in strange ways over the few years I've been using a Mac. Really don't see the point of them at this time with OS X.
 
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You know why, you saw the point earlier,..

Know of a better option then pg to do the same thing, minus the messing up of my macbook? :)
 

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Sorry, the only advice I can give:

Go legit.
 
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You know why, you saw the point earlier,..

Know of a better option then pg to do the same thing, minus the messing up of my macbook? :)

I'm quite certain he saw "the point earlier", and I'm in agreement. There is no point. It appears you are under the false impression that PG is actually making you anonymous while downloading stuff you aren't entitled to.
 

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