So I'm a little bit closer to solving this issue - The problem is in the kernel.
I reverted to an older kernel and I can access the sites just fine. I also tried a completely different NIC and driver with the current kernel and still the same issue - ruling out the NIC drivers. I'm currently using the latest stable release gentoo kernel - 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 (r6 also doesn't work) My old kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r6 works perfectly. It may be some kernel network configuration parameter - I compiled these myself, but nothing jumps out at me. Any kernel experts around? Martin On Thursday 28 September 2006 18:07, Martin Glazer wrote: > I'm completely baffled by this.... > > >From my workstation (Gentoo/KDE), I cannot access some websites > > (www.contribs.org being the main one I need). The request goes out but then > I don't receive anything in response and eventually the browser times out. > > I have tried with Konqueror, FireFox and even telnetted to port 80 - > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet contribs.org 80 > Trying 216.17.211.37... > Connected to contribs.org. > Escape character is '^]'. > GET HTTP/1.1 > > <<hit enter a few times>> > > Connection closed by foreign host. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > > I've tried under a different used ID, under root and even changed machine > IP. The machine is sitting on my internal network behind a Linux firewall. > There is no firewall/iptables running on this workstation. > > Other machines on my internal network (Linux and Windows) have no problem > accessing these sites, so it is not the firewall > . > I can access most other sites on the internet without a problem from this > machine. > > I used to be able to access these sites before. > > Any suggestions? > > Baffled > (Martin) > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
