[TriLUG] MS Web Host drops connecions from Linux clients

[Michael Kimsal]

The trilug mail server is exchange and it's dropping some of your mail
message.


On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Brian Phelps <brphelps at ieee.org> wrote:

> Sorry to double post but that post only shows the 1st 3 lines of my message
> in the archives, but the whole post is in my email client.  Whats going on
> here?
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Brian Phelps <brphelps at ieee.org> wrote:
>
> > A vendor of mine hosts a web site that basically drops or times out
> > connections from any Linux machine I have tried:
> > http://www.keydigital.com
> >
> > From linux the site seems really slow.  The site is quick if you try it
> > from an MS machine w/ FF.
> >
> > I have tried using FF w/ no scripting on, same problem.
> >
> > It even does this using curl from any of my Debian or Ubuntu machines and
> > even on a Redhat server I manage.
> >
> > The vendor Web Admin blames my machine and says I am the only one with
> this
> > problem and that I need to upgrade my browser to the latest version of
> > Internet Explorer.  I've been trying to resolve this issue with them for
> > nearly three weeks now.
> >
> > BTW: This problem does not occur on a Mac w/ FF.
> >
> > Anyone here know what the reason that this dropout is happening?  My
> guess
> > is it is some DDoS defense setting in their firewall/server
> configuration.
> > It seems to be TCP related, not HTML, scripting, or Flash etc.
> >
> > -Brian
> >
> >
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