[TriLUG] MS Web Host drops connecions from Linux clients

[JSEvans]

If you really think that the site is prefering connections  from windows boxes why not make your ff say that it is a a windows box. There used to be addons for ff that would cause it to report that it is ie6 or ie7 for windows. Don't know if there are any of those anymore but it woulld be worth a shot.
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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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