unable to connect to some websites

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 24.01.2004 schrieb Matthew Wilson um 17:56:
> Greetings list,
> (Fedora Core 1, Kernel 2.6.0-1.107, Mozilla 1.4, ADSL connection via
> Ethernet and router)
> I have a rather odd problem that has become apparent in the last couple
> of days. Using Mozilla, Opera or wget, I can't connect to some
> websites.  The connection will time out.  Ethereal shows the name being
> resolved successfully and connection requests being sent to the server,
> but no response is received.   The same sites can be accessed fine from
> a M$ box on the same LAN.  I've tried disabling iptables to no avail.
> 
> A couple of the websites this occurs with:
> www.sown.org.uk
> www.musicroom.com
> 
> any ideas?
> cheers
> Matthew Wilson.

Edit /etc/sysctl.conf and add a line

net.ipv4.tcp_ecn = 0

Run "sysctl -p" afterwards.

Alexander


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