On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 17:48 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>> "AV" == Aaron VanDevender
<sig(a)netdot.net> writes:
AV> I was trying to visit the website
www.nap.edu (National Academies
AV> Press) using my FC6 desktop machine, but firefox just grinds on it
AV> indefinitely with "Waiting for
www.nap.edu...". I can telnet to
AV> port 80 of the site, and it connects, but after saying "GET /" it
AV> just hangs, and never returns anything.
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.
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<