Glad to hear you got your MTU issue fixed :-)
Sent by Outlook<http://taps.io/outlookmobile> for Android On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 10:02 PM -0700, "David" <da...@kenpro.com.au<mailto:da...@kenpro.com.au>> wrote: It seems that "an upstream supplier" has made changes that specifically require an MTU of 1492. Problem solved. Only some sites were affected, which made it confusing. I can't imagine why anyone would do this and not tell anybody. My reseller couldn't tell me who the "upstream supplier" is, except that it isn't TPG. Go figure. On 08/06/15 18:41, Amos Shapira wrote: > You probably refer to the drop of support for NPAPI (e.g. article in > http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/24/google-chrome-will-block-all-netscape-plugin-api-plugins-in-january-drop-support-completely-in-september/ > about Chrome but Firefox is following cloesely behind). > > There are temporary work-around provided by Google to keep letting > some plugins to be enabled by some sites, but they are all expected to > be gone by the end of 2015 so should better find alternatives soon. > > As for the original question - I doubt that it's a plugin issue. It > sounds more like some of the dependent resources on these pages are > being blocked or otherwise (temporarily?) unavailable. What does the > JavaScript console show? Do you have some corporate proxy which could > be misbehaving? > > Just for shits and giggles, I visited > www.trivago.com.au<http://www.trivago.com.au> > <http://www.trivago.com.au> and had no problem accessing it, even on > my flaky home ADSL2+ line. > --Amos > > On 8 June 2015 at 17:13, DaZZa <dazzagi...@gmail.com > <mailto:dazzagi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > What browser? > > Recently, Chrome (and possibly Firefox) decided that all java > pugins (and > others like Silverlight) were "unsecured", and the simply stopped > allowing > the plugins to work. > > Broke countless business-related Web sites - I had a storm of > them, all > being blamed on "the firewall", or "the network". > > I can't find the reference articles I dug up at the time as I'm > mobile, > but try a different browser and see if that helps. > > DaZZa > On 08/06/2015 3:24 PM, "david" <da...@kenpro.com.au > <mailto:da...@kenpro.com.au>> wrote: > > > I have a "business ethernet" internet connection from a TPG > reseller. > > > > Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are > inaccessible from > > local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks > like > > javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The > browser is > > waiting for a script or css or something not immediately > obvious. I get the > > same problem with different browsers. > > > > Some sites work perfectly - eg Westpac. The ABC site works, but > after > > apparently loading it then constantly waits for something but I > can't tell > > what. Some google responses work and some don't. > > > > For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for > > jse.trivago.com <http://jse.trivago.com> and never loads, > although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, > > lynx works fine - which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS > or some such. > > > > I rang the help desk late on Friday. They suggested DNS (??), > but I don't > > think that's it because I tried using an external DNS server and > in any > > case there doesn't seem to be any resolution problem. On their > suggestion > > I've rebooted both the Cisco router and NTU with no change. Does > anybody > > have any thoughts? > > > > David > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > > -- > <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> -- David McQuire 0418 310312 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
