During the bombing raid on Tue, 1 May 2001 18:27:36 -0500, Vincent Meyer was
heard mumbling in fear:
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone think of a reason why one would only be able to look at some web
> sites and not others ? I'm at work, with my linux laptop on the office
> network. If I go to one of the windows machines and put in the URL i want,
> it comes up fine, yet konqueror AND netscape come up with messages that they
> can't connect to the website. If I go into webmin, and use dig, it finds 'em
> just fine. If I use ping, I can ping 'em just fine.
Check the discussion about it on the kernel mailing list:
http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/latest.html#9
In short...there's a routing standard out there that not all routers
follow and that 2.4.x has implemented....the sites that are using non-standard
compilant routers become unreachable. I'm not 100% sure about this being your
problem, but it's a good shot.
Vox
--
Pain is the gift of the gods, and I'm the one they chose as their messenger....
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Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind
of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_
technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
Vox populi, vox deii....
