On 4 April 2011 13:15, Bruce Clement <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's been a long time since I've seen this type of effect and I never really
> got to the bottom of it but at the time I came to the conclusion that it was
> probably a misconfigured "Transparent" proxy at my then ISP that timed out
> and invented a 404 response.
>
> I solved my problem by using socks forwarding over ssh. Is this an option
> for your customer?
>
> If it is a DNS timeout as Brenda suggests, you could (partially) test for
> this by adding the site to /etc/hosts or
> c:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts ... naturally this will only work if
> "transparent" proxying isn't in effect.

Like Bruce says -- host entries won't help if you're in Telstra or one
of their downstreams, due to their proxy.

Can you provide that full error message? someone may recognise whether
it's from a common browser or a popular ISP's transparent proxy.

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