[TriLUG] Fedora Core 2 vs www.usenix.org

[Mike Johnson]

Lance A. Brown [lance at bearcircle.net] wrote:
> May I ask a favor?
> 
> I've run into a weird problem trying to access http://www.usenix.org/ 
> with any web browser running on Fedora Core 2.  I have two different 
> systems running FC2 on different networks that just stall out trying 
> to reach it.  A friend at NCU has confirmed his FC2 box there can't 
> reach it either.  Other systems I have access to running Windows or 
> other flavors of linux are fine.
> 
> If you are running FC2, would you please try the URL and report your 
> results directly to me?  I'm totally stumped on what is causing this 
> problem.

Try this:
echo "0" >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn

Some site don't like ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification).  I have no
clue if this is your problem, or if ECN is even enabled in FC2, but it's
worth a shot.

Mike
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