Browsers forum: Can't Access ONE website: www.craigslist.org

I called Linksys at 1(800)326-7114. They took me through some steps and it solved the problem.

Open your router page in your browser. Should be an address with a series of numbers similar to:

http://189.156.1.1/

(I changed the above for my own security reasons.)

Once you enter your password and pull up the Linksys router page, click on the "Advanced" tab (top right on mine.)

Then scroll down to the bottom of the "Filters" page.

You should see this setting:

MTU: . Enable . Disable Size: 1492

Decrease the size to 1450 or so to allow more information through the router. Then apply and try your sites that won't load. If they still won't load try lowering the size just low enough until they do, thus still keeping your firewall intact. You can go all the way down to 600 but that would pretty much let anything through and defeat the purpose of the firewall.

Hope this works as well as it did for me.

Thanks.

you didnt have to change that IP address, especially if it started out with 192.##.##.###- all networks use that, so it wouldnt be helpful for a hacker to know that info.

...thumbs way up for the solution!!! Craig and I happily thank you for your support. Now back to his list I go....

I have the EXACT same problem as "polaris6". i believe my router to be OK as I can access craigslist with my laptop or any other computer on the network. My desktop (Vista Premium) is the only computer that can't. All other web pages pull up, I've got through all the security settings I can think of and disabled my antivirus/ firewall. Same problem! What ended up being the fix for you polaris6?

this is a four year old discussion. You might want to create a new one to get more exposure.

Yes its possible that a website by using .htaccess may block your IP to access it.

Craigslist in the only site that will not work using either IE or Mozilla. sometime it works if I power off router. I can not get any help from Dlink and Cox refuses since I have a router. Help

box by going to tools tab > options > privacy tab > cookies tab > exception button > type craigslist.com and allow it to set cookies > click close button > click ok

If this works for you let me know.

I can't access www.craigslist.org either...this started about 1-2 months ago or so. I couldn't figure it out.
Tonight I spent some time...and tried all of the suggestions to this problem...none worked.
I have a win2k system.
I cleared all my browers(i have a couple).
I then opened my ms internet explorer when type in www.craigslist.org and my browser got redirected to http:/www.navisearch.net (I think I've got adware/spamware on my machine.
sure enough...Then I used netstat and started monitoring connections...Well I started seeing http connections and wrote a couple down and one of these was the navisearch site.
So...then I http'd into my router...netgear and setup a block for the navisearch website.
Lo and Behold...now I can get to craigslist again....
Sigh! I'm happy about that...but I've got more connections occuring that I believe are spyware etc...I can now continue to cleanup...maybe I should consider a clean os install and get my pc protected again...
Note:
ping and tracert will fail to craigslist they've got it setup to not respond to ping/tracert.
Lastly: Best of luck to any of you whom have encountered this issue....as you can see from all of the responses, there seem to be a number of causes and solutions.

Here is the deal and I am still having the same problem. It has to do with the numeric IP address. I guess an address is created everytime you access the website. SBC/Yahoo has new 71.XXX.XX series address that craigslist servers don't recognize. I don't really understand what that means but the SBC people said it has to be handled on their end (craiglist). I sometimes can access the site when a different address is used. This stuff is over my head, but that is what I heard.
Good luck and let me know if you find anything?

i too stoped getting craigslist.org a couple months ago. i have tried everything. my isp is verizon and i use a verizon router. i searched the router and the mozilla firefox options and have reset everything. i took the problem to the verizon help desk and they could not find the problem. i read all these problems on cnet and these fixes do not wotk or i do not know how to implement them. i do not know what else to do. i stoped my firewall and stoped my anti virus that is norton 360 and that does not work. i can get to it with a kindle thru a wireless connection on my veizon router so that i do not understand. wgen i type in the craigslist.org and click nothing happens and i get no error messages. help.... help rich7773