ESPN won't load properly

[Rjcrichard]

ESPN won't load properly on any of my devices at my home. It is the only site this happens.

I get a non-html page after a long time, or it just times out.

Have latest Chrome on the PC, Safari on iPHone 6, etc..

Any suggestions?

 

[DelJo63]

The base URL is http://espn.go.com/ and specific sports add a dir name,
eg http://espn.go.com//nba.

EITHER of those are just webpages and not streaming - - So can you be more specific on the "non-html page" you get?

 

[Rjcrichard]

Yes. The base url, or any espn associated page won't load quickly. AFter about 20 seconds, all I get are blue links, aligned down the left hand side of the page. You can see it below. I did a print screen, but the right screen is my second monitor. Sorry.

No other websites are doing this. If I click on any of the links, the same thing happens. Thx for any help.

 

[DelJo63]

AHH; the left side IS html -- just it is missing some CSS to perform the layout desired.
Let me look - - -

 

[DelJo63]

The CSS on the site is special case code, meaning, the desired CSS is conditionally loaded.

It is possible that there is no default and thus no css loaded at all

Here's what I get using Firefox:

<!--[if IE 9]>   <<<< THIS IS A REAL CSS
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://a.espncdn.com/redesign/0.259.8/css/styles.css">
<style>
#main-container {
visibility:visible !important;
}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<!--[if !IE]><!-->  <<<< THIS SAYS NOT IE and creates the following 
<link  class="page-type-include" rel="stylesheet" rel="http://a.espncdn.com/redesign/0.259.8/css/page.css">
<!--<![endif]-->

[edit] copy/paste corrected LINK [/edit]

Try using the standard IE browser and report back

 

[DelJo63]

My Chrome 43.0.2357.... produces the same css as the firefox

 

[Rjcrichard]

Tried IE and the same thing happens. Same on my iphone too. And ipad. I just checked and it only happens on the wifi at my house. If I turn off wifi, then my phone loads the page.

Thanks for the tip on the CSS.

 

[DelJo63]

Get a command prompt
cd to \windows\system32\drivers\etc

type

• find "a.espncdn.com" hosts

does it return something like "127.0.0.1 ??a.espncdn.com"

 

[Rjcrichard]

Sorry. I don't know how to do that. Been trying but can't seem to use the command prompt correctly.

 

[Rjcrichard]

I typed "find a.espncdn.com" hosts
and the reply was
HOSTS

 

[DelJo63]

Here's my result:

C:\Users\Jeff>find "espncdn.com" \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
---------- \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS
C:\Users\Jeff>​

which says "espncdn.com" is NOT in the hosts file

trying something else:

C:\Users\Jeff>find "zero-codec.com" \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
---------- \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS
127.0.0.1 www.zero-codec.com
127.0.0.1 zero-codec.com​

says it is in the hosts file and that will cause ALL access
to "zero-codec.com" to be denied

 

[Rjcrichard]

I entered that

find "zero-codec.com" \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
but it returned:
\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\DRIVERS\ETC\HOSTS

Sorry I am not a better student. Groping way through this.

 

[DelJo63]

You did just fine IF there was nothing following the path name and that means your host file is not blocking the domain name "zero-codec.com"

 

[Rjcrichard]

Thank you. So is there anything else I can try?

 

[DelJo63]

If the url is still a.espncdn.com,

• can you PING a.espncdn.com ??

btw: that domain is served by akamai.net - - a CDN used to offload data
my access is via a1589.g1.akamai.net

• can ping a1589.g1.akamai.net ??