RE: can't connect to web site
Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@goop.org)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 14:39:36 -0800 (PST)
On 16-Mar-99 Anders Widell wrote:
> I can't browse the web site http://www.skandiabanken.se/ when I run
> Linux 2.2.3. But I have no trouble connecting to that site when I run
> Linux 2.0 or Windows on the same computer. And I don't have any problems
> connecting to other sites when I run Linux 2.2.3.
>
> Netscape says: 'Connect: Host www.skandiabanken.se contacted. Waiting
> for reply...' and then nothing more happens. Lynx says 'HTTP request
> sent; waiting for response.'.
>
> Can anybody confirm this problem? Any ideas what the cause is?
It works fine for me. Are you connecting from behind a firewall? Perhaps your
firewall is masking ICMP packets needed for path MTU discovery, which is a new
2.2 feature. Try 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc' and see if that
helps. If it does, get your firewall fixed.
J
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