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Old 08-19-2008, 11:41 PM
Default Re: http grief (was: Ethernet drivers)

Hi Pierre:

I think I know what may be causing your problem, as
I had something similar happen to me, and I had to add
a fix for it.

See if you can run to fix it:

route -n flush
setup

Basically, it was caused by the route table filling
up in a newer tcpip stack, where the older versions had
a set expire to delete old entries, and I have to check
what I changed to fix it . . . {:-)

later,
lin Baden



In , rcpj@panix.com (Pierre Jelenc) writes:
>
>Oh well, every silver lining must have its cloud, doesn't it...
>
>The good news is that the DSL setup is running well. The bad news is that
>I seem to be having an http/https choke point somewhere.
>
>The symptoms: after a fresh boot, all is well for a while (I don't know
>yet whether this "while" is a time duration or an amount of usage) until
>suddenly some web sites (there will be a list below) simply do not load.
>
>Some of them do not load at all, some (about half; unfortunately I did not
>think of making a list) seem to load something because the proper title
>and favicon are displayed, and sometimes the background color changes, but
>no data actually come up, neither text nor graphics.
>
>Those sites that do load, seem to do so incompletely, although I don't see
>anything obviously missing: even after everything seems to have loaded,
>the loading indicators in SeaMonkey and FireFox continue to twirl.
>
>Once this phenomenon has started, it will not stop. I can close SM and FF,
>the blocked sites are still blocked later, until a reboot. Furthermore,
>the *same* sites also do not load in links, while those that are still
>accessible are also accessible by links (whether PM or text-mode).
>
>After a reboot, when the problem recurs after a while, it seems that the
>same sites that had been blocked before the reboot become blocked again,
>while those that had remained accessible do remain accessible.
>
>While this is happening in OS/2, my elderly Mac laptop (running 8.6)
>plugged into the same router (no wireless: Ethernet cables in both
>instances) will happily visit all the sites, whether accessible or not
>on the OS/2 machine.
>
>My take is that it's not the router (the Mac works), it's not the sites
>themselves (all the the blocked sites load without problem after a
>reboot), it's not the browse (SM, FF, links are equally affected), it's
>not PM (links is affected in both modes).
>
>Also, when I try to load a blocked site, there's a lot of activity
>(blinking lights) on the DSL and Ethernet lines, as though the entire HTML
>code is actually received, but not displayed. In some instances, I even
>have some evidence for that: the amazon.com home page displays title and
>favicon, and the backgound turns white, but nothing gets displayed.
>Nevertheless "View Page Source" shows the entire HTML for the page all the
>way to the final "".
>
>Finally, it happens on both http and https sites, and whether or not
>javascript is enabled.
>
>Stumped again!
>
>Pierre
>-----------------------------------
>appendix: test sites:
>
>Sites visited in the previous 2 weeks or so that
>remain accessible:
>http://www.banjojims.com/
>http://www.rockwoodmusichall.com/
>http://www.jr.com/
>http://www.nycbeer.org/
>http://www.sciencedaily.com/
>http://leopac.nypl.org/
>http://www.php.net/
>http://www.panix.com/
>
>Sites NOT visited in the previous 2 weeks or so that
>are accessible:
>http://www.columbia.edu/
>http://wnyu.nyu.edu/
>http://httpd.apache.org/
>http://newyork.craigslist.org/
>http://www.seaportmusicfestival.com/
>http://www.yahoo.com/
>http://www.camra.org.uk/
>http://www.wcbs880.com/
>http://www.independent.co.uk/
>
>
>Sites visited in the previous 2 weeks or so that
>are now inaccessible:
>http://www.google.com/
>http://news.google.com/
>https://login.yahoo.com/
>http://www.rodeobar.com/
>http://www.countrystandardtime.com/
>http://www.harrisradio.com/
>http://www.lefigaro.fr/
>http://www.drudgereport.com/
>http://www.nydailynews.com/
>http://www.nytimes.com/
>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
>http://www.amazon.com/
>
>Sites NOT visited in the previous 2 weeks or so that
>are inaccessible:
>https://www.blogger.com/start
>http://www.livejournal.com/
>http://www.hbd.org/
>http://chowhound.chow.com/
>http://www.sxsw.com/
>http://www.cmj.com/
>http://www.live365.com/
>http://www.bestbuy.com/
>http://www.nypost.com/
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/
>http://www.lesoir.be/
>http://www.svd.se/
>http://www.dn.se/
>http://www.wfuv.org/
>-----------------------------------
>--
>Pierre Jelenc
> The Gigometer www.gigometer.com
> The NYC Beer Guide www.nycbeer.org




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