On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:24:43AM +1000, DaZZa wrote: > One day, while I was attempting to logon, the site was plainly down. > Wouldn't even respond to PING's.
Many web sites that have to be secure won't respond to pings anytime. > Their administrators are brain dead - when I emailed a complaint about > this via their online form, I got a reply which basically said "We don;t > support Linux - go away" - completely ignoring tjhe fact that the problem > clearly wasn't browser/OS related. But it could be! See the recent discussion of ECN. Some Linuxes have it turned by default. And many sites can't cope with it. Yeah sure it worked yesterday, but maybe they did a router upgrade over night? There are many sites (yahoo notably) that I just cannot reach with my Linux machine, that I can when I boot into Windows. I don't know why. It's not ECN. You cannot say categorically that is not Linux that is at fault. (BTW, I wouldn't have told them what OS I was running. Or at least just lied to them.) I do believe that banks should support Linux, or rather they should write their web sites somewhat portably, but .. I think people here profoundly underestimate the cost and time it takes to do IT support in a large organisation. It's difficult to believe until you've been there. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
