Connection Refused When Attempting to Contact plug.phoenix.az.us

[Jared Anderson]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:16:52 -0700, George writes:
>Unable to reach the PLUG page.
>
>Keep getting the dreaded "The connection was refused when attempting to
>contact plug.phoenix.az.us".
>
>My firewall shows a blocked incoming ICMP from remote host 255.255.255.255
>and a block incoming ICMP from remote host 139.130.97.62 at about the same
>time of one attempt however this does not seem to be repeatable.
>
>Any ideas.

what happens when you try to ping it:
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gNotebook ~ # ping plug.phoenix.az.us
PING plug.phoenix.az.us (66.98.190.6) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from secure.ecommerce-order5.com (66.98.190.6): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=50.4
ms 64 bytes from secure.ecommerce-order5.com (66.98.190.6): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51
time=50.1 ms 64 bytes from secure.ecommerce-order5.com (66.98.190.6): icmp_seq=3
ttl=51 time=51.0 ms 64 bytes from secure.ecommerce-order5.com (66.98.190.6):
icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=50.5 ms 64 bytes from secure.ecommerce-order5.com
(66.98.190.6): icmp_seq=5 ttl=51 time=52.2 ms
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Have you recently messed with your /etc/hosts file?