Can only get gmail.com to work on wireless

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wineman

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I'm connected to my wireless network at school, it connects and if I open up terminal and "ping facebook.com" it returns the IP. For some reason the only website I can get to come up in my browser is gmail.com I've tried a bunch of stuff and cant seem to get any other sites to work.

Any ideas?
 
Could the school have some sort of web filtering enabled?

Is this a primary school, or a university? If primary, most schools employ filtering and what-not. Universities are much more liberal with their wireless networks.
 
There is no filtering. Its a home network with comcast. It was something to do with coming back to school I think. Switching from my home network to school.

I deleted all the stored network settings and re entered them. I tried releasing DCHP and checked my router/DNS with someone elses mac who is successfully connected to the internet through the wireless internet.

What else should I try?
 
For some reason the only website I can get to come up in my browser is gmail.com I've tried a bunch of stuff and cant seem to get any other sites to work.
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Can you explain this in greater detail?

What happens if you try and visit facebook.com? Does it sit there, "contacting server" forever? Does it immediately return with a "cannot find server" error message? Please explain exactly what you see, verbatim, when you try and visit one of those sites.

One thing you can try is creating a new network "Location." Head over to the "Network" pane of the System Preferences, and create a new network location -- set all the options correctly (DHCP, Static IP, BootP, what-have-you) and see if that helps.
 
Maybe something is hung up in the browser cache. Try deleting the browser cache and if you are using Safari and clearing the cache doesn't work try to reset Safari.
 
I'm in Chrome but the results are the same on safari/firefox. If I try to hit facebook.com it just says "Waiting for facebook.com" forever. I don't ever see a 404 or anything
 
If you are connecting through a router try bypassing the router and wire the machine directly to your modem to see what happens. This may require resetting your modem to train the modem to accept your computers MAC address. This is usually simply done by unplugging the modem for 30 seconds and plugging back in. If the modem is a telephony modem (phone and internet through ISP) you will need to find the reset button on the modem and do it that way due to telephony modems having battery backup.
 
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