I have an issue with one of my computer on my network. It is an iMac running OS X 10.5.8.

The issue is accessing certain websites. For instance, one of these websites is that the computer is unable to connect to is farmville.com.

When I ping farmville.com it returns "no route to host":

$ ping farmville.com
PING farmville.com (50.16.253.102): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host
ping: sendto: No route to host

When I traceroute farmville:

$ traceroute farmville.com
traceroute: Warning: farmville.com has multiple addresses; using 50.16.253.109
traceroute to farmville.com (50.16.253.109), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
traceroute: sendto: No route to host
  1 traceroute: wrote farmville.com 40 chars, ret=-1

tracerouting the farmville ip address: 50.16.253.109

$ traceroute 50.16.253.109
traceroute to farmville.com (50.16.253.109), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
traceroute: sendto: No route to host
  1 traceroute: wrote farmville.com 40 chars, ret=-1

Now the interesting part is that I on another computer (running Ubuntu 10.10) I have no issues at all accessing this website. Which tells me that it's not the internet connection. I've also disabled the firewall on the router to no avail.

The /etc/hosts file in the mac is the following. The /private/etc/hosts file is empty:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1   localhost
#255.255.255.255    broadcasthost
::1             localhost 
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

Any help is appreciated.

Many thanks