Unable to access certain Web sites...

[Scott van Looy]

Today John Bradley did spake thusly:

> Hi,
>
> Hope someone can help me.
>
> I've recently moved from New Zealand to Australia and have obviously changed 
> ISPs.
>
> I'm unable to connect to certain websites, yet have no problem connecting to 
> others.  The firewall settings appear to be OK on the ADSL MODEM as well as 
> on my PC.  The support guy I spoke to at the ISP has no LINUX experience.

Usually the most likely problem is that you have ECN turned on,

more /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
if it's not 0, then

echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
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