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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:42:08 +1100 (EST)
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
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Subject: Re: oddities with some carriers? maybe
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On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Robert Chalmers wrote:

> I've noticed some oddities over the last 6 months with some networks
> or carriers. I can't pin down which. I have found two companies so
> far that have trouble retrieving info from over here. Yahoo and 
> Linkexchange are two. This is most noticable when they are trying to
> retrieve something from my site using their cgi scripts to either update
> search engines, or in the case of linkexchange, retrieve the banner.gif to 
> put in their database.
> 
> My link here is only 28.8, and I know that this could be the source of 
> some problems, however, I am beginning to suspect something much lower
> down the chain.

Your problem is that eros.chalmers.com.au is an Annex, and Annexes munge 
tcp extensions.  Turn off the TCP extensions and you'll be happy.

cheers,

Danny