Hi
Paul A Rubin has been having problems saving pages to the wiki if the
pages are above a certain size. After some investigating, it seems that
this might have something to do with the computer 'tott.linpro.no'.
Here's the thread in the user's list:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/16377
Essentially the problem can be described as follows:
* Pages can be edited and previewd, but *not* saved
* This only happens if the posted data is above a certain size
* This does not happen when working against a different wiki site
* This only happens from some systems/computers
* It does not seem to depend on the OS
Here's an excerpt from Paul's latest message:
> Aha! (Or perhaps I should say "Aha??") I turned off my firewall
> momentarily (scary thing to do here), and an edit went through just
> fine. Stranger still, I then turned the firewall back on, and I can
> still edit the test page.
> I can't find anything in the firewall log with respect to traffic
> to/from wiki.lyx.org. However, there is an entry with a similar IP
> address (maps to tott.linpro.no). It's about the right time frame for
> one of my unsuccessful edit attempts (prior to turning the firewall
> off), and it indicates that the firewall blocked 19 ICMP Type 3
> (Destination Unreachable) packets from tott.linpro.no, apparently in
> response to traffic I sent.
> Ok, this is getting a bit stochastic. I closed the browser and
> restarted it, then (with the firewall on) edited the LotsOfText page and
> tried to save. The browser hung, and the firewall reported a bunch of
> ICMP 3 packets from tott.linpro.no. Fine. I then ran netstat to check
> network connections, tried another edit (without shutting down the
> firewall, without restarting the browser) and the edit went through
> (!?). Then I tried another edit, and it failed, but I got no new ICMP
> packets from tott.linpro.no. And then another attempt succeeded.
It all seems rather weird, so I'd be grateful for some ideas on how to
further track down this problem. (If some user's can't edit pages with
more than say 1000 characters the wiki looses a bit of its charm :-(
/Christian
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Christian Ridderstr�m http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
