I use a server at work that I use to host a blog, wiki, and a few other applications that I often use from home. Today I tried to access the server from my laptop (Macbook, OS 10.5.8, Firefox 12.0) and I started seeing some strange behavior. When I requested the page myserver.edu/mywiki, I got a Google 404 error page. I tried a few other pages on the server (that I could remember off the top of my head), but I got the same result. When I tried the server root index page (myserver.edu) I got completely redirected to the Google home page.
In the last few days, we've set up new internet service at our house, so I thought something might be wrong there. But I was able to see the page correctly from our desktop (on the same network). So then I thought there might be some strange browser caching issue, and I cleared the entire cache history, but that didn't work either. I tried different browsers and even a different account on my laptop, but all have the same problem.
There is some system-wide issue that is causing my laptop to think that myserver.edu is google.com. I checked the /private/etc/hosts
file--I didn't see anything out of the ordinary, although I am not sure what to expect either. Any thoughts as to what might be causing this?