From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 3 07:10:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA19436 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 07:10:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA19333 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 07:09:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id QAA11339; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:08:44 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:08:44 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Tony Jones Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW problem with 2.2-stable References: <199808271714.KAA18781@seagull.rtd.com> Organization: University of Oslo, Department of Informatics X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-other-addresses: 'finger dag-erli@ifi.uio.no' for a list X-disclaimer-1: The views expressed in this article are mine alone, and do X-disclaimer-2: not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or X-disclaimer-3: company with which I am or have been affiliated. X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org/ From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 03 Sep 1998 16:08:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: Tony Jones's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 1998 10:14:09 -0700 (MST)" Message-ID: Lines: 16 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id HAA19399 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tony Jones writes: > Initially the problem showed up when browing their Usenet archives > (www2.altavista.digital.com), it would connect (netstat shows socket > in connected state) but no data would ever be recieved (confirmed by > modem lights). Eventually Netscape just times out. Once in a blue > moon, it'll work, but 99% of the time, it fails as above. This reminds me of the MTU discovery problem that was recently discussed on one of the lists. It's not related to the exact site you're trying to connect to, but rather to the path between you and that site (to be exact, to the lowest MTU between you and that site). Try searching the archives (-net, -hackers, -current, -stable). DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message