Re: can't connect to web site

Peter Jansson (peter396@hotmail.com)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 09:39:50 +0000


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> 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.

It actually makes it worse. Lynx stops already at 'Sending HTTP request.' instead
of 'HTTP request sent; waiting for response.'. Besides, I'm not behind a firewall.
But I believe the web server is, so of course it depends on how you define
"behind" :)

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