On 9/17/2014 5:28 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > Sigh. > > While agreeing with Michael that it's a problem that should be resolved, > the best minds here in the linux universe are equally stumped.
One possibility is that the *remote* web server has reverse DNS validation turned on, and your external IP, for some reason, does not have a PTR record. Can you send me (in a private email) your external IP address? You can easily determine this by going to http://whatismyip.com. Almost all ISPs provide PTR records for their dynamically assigned pool addresses. For example, my (obfuscated) IP is aa.bb.cc.dd and if I do a "dig -x" on it I get: ... ;; ANSWER SECTION: dd.cc.bb.aa.in-addr.arpa. 5313 IN PTR c-aa-bb-cc-dd.hsd1.or.comcast.net. ... If your ISP has not provided a PTR record for your address, then it's the SERVER that could be timing out on DNS resolution trying to figure out who you are (for blacklisting, for instance). It's pretty rare nowadays to configure a web server to do PTR lookup (email servers yes, web servers no) but it would cause exactly the behavior you are seeing. -- Jim Garrison ([email protected]) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
