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<blockquote data-quote="Raz0rEdge" data-source="post: 1821647" data-attributes="member: 110816">The way I've seen this manifest is if you were to say add the Dropbox.com domain in your /etc/hosts file and point it to localhost (127.0.0.1). This essentially kills access to the site. While a manual way, there are many apps (Little Snitch for one) that essentially do the same thing with a prettier UI. That application allows you to selectively block access to (what it's meant to do) advertising or bad sites on the web. However, you can make it restrict access to any site you want.I'm not suggesting that you have done it, but if you do have any sort of filtering/monitoring tool, that would be the place to check. If Dropbox is the ONLY one having issues and no other site, you should then figure out if it's an ISP thing. Depending on who your ISP is, they might be blocking it for some reason.The other thing you might want to try is go into your Network Settings in Sys Prefs and for your connection (WiFi or Wired), go to the DNS settings tab and use Google's DNS' of 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to see if bypassing your ISP gets you going again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raz0rEdge, post: 1821647, member: 110816"] The way I've seen this manifest is if you were to say add the Dropbox.com domain in your /etc/hosts file and point it to localhost (127.0.0.1). This essentially kills access to the site. While a manual way, there are many apps (Little Snitch for one) that essentially do the same thing with a prettier UI. That application allows you to selectively block access to (what it's meant to do) advertising or bad sites on the web. However, you can make it restrict access to any site you want. I'm not suggesting that you have done it, but if you do have any sort of filtering/monitoring tool, that would be the place to check. If Dropbox is the ONLY one having issues and no other site, you should then figure out if it's an ISP thing. Depending on who your ISP is, they might be blocking it for some reason. The other thing you might want to try is go into your Network Settings in Sys Prefs and for your connection (WiFi or Wired), go to the DNS settings tab and use Google's DNS' of 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to see if bypassing your ISP gets you going again. [/QUOTE]

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