Hanging Website: TCP Problem?

[Mike Wright]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Aaron VanDevender wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Broken routers not handling TCP window scaling?  Try:
>>>  echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
>>>and see the thread starting at:
>>>  http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/13/103
>>
>>Thanks, Jason. That did the trick. I'll let the owners know that they
>>need to fix their router and or server.
> 
> 
> Actually, the problem is probably closer to you than to the owners of the
> site.  I only say this since I can access the site you mentioned from here
> in Taiwan with no trouble at all.

Hi Ed,

I'm in San Jose, CA and can access the site from any of my boxes 
*except* for the fc6 ones.  Tried dillo, firefox, and telnet and all of 
them hang.  Telnet locked up so tight I had to open a separate xterm to 
kill it.

.02

> 
> 
>>
>>>Unfortunately if this is the problem then disabling window scaling is
>>>not really a proper solution; only fixing the broken network devices
>>>works in the long term.
>>>
>>> - J<
>>>
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