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Re: Altavista load stalls
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward H. Currie)
Thu Nov 5 15:22:36 1998
From: "Edward H. Currie" <ehcurrie@worldnet.att.net>
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 15:21:38 -0500
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I've seen it also with respect to AltaVista ...
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark S Petrovic <petrovic@corp.earthlink.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, November 05, 1998 3:08 PM
Subject: Altavista load stalls
>Under Redhat 5.0 and the bundled version of Netscape Communicator I
>attempt to load www.altavista.com. tcpdump shows the syn/ack handshake
>taking place, as well as a few payload packets, but no meaningful
>content is delivered thereafter - dead air, and quite reproducible.
>Other major sites load without incident. I haven't yet studied in
>detail the packet contents. All sessions are dialup. The machine has
>no nic card, and no fixed IP in /etc/hosts. The host config is pretty
>standard - I haven't tweaked anything that in my mind would cause this
>site-specific stall.
>
>A few folks I work with have seen the same effect. Moreover, dejanews
>reveals another person or two who has seen this, and attributes the
>effect to path mtu discovery considerations. I'm not convinced the two
>are related.
>
>Anyone else seen this?
>
>
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