Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:32:15 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box. Message-ID: <20071019143215.1943ae88@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <19861fba0710170607u6784a6d9if0e0caca3fe48054@mail.gmail.com> References: <BAY116-W396DF7DD39AC9BB669EF90A99C0@phx.gbl> <19861fba0710170607u6784a6d9if0e0caca3fe48054@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:07:55 +0200 J65nko <j65nko@gmail.com> wrote: > >From the section "Compatibility problems" of > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_window_scale_option > > "TCP Window Scaling is widely implemented in the Windows Vista > operating system. Because many routers do not properly implement TCP > Window Scaling, it can cause a users Internet connection to > malfunction intermittently for a few minutes, then appear to start > working again for no reason. If "diagnose problem" is selected in > Vista, an error message will be displayed "cannot communicate with > primary DNS server." > " Routers shouldn't care about TCP windows so I guess they're actually referring to the firewalls on NAT-routers. What I don't get is why a TCP Window problem affects DNS. It's not mentioned in the Wikipedia article or the referenced tech-recipes.com link. Surely Vista doesn't routinely do DNS over TCP.
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