[Gllug] Re: problem accessing a website

[Philippe Poelvoorde]

Hi,

here is the response from BT :
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I have looked into this for you and from what I can see this appears
to be a problem with the site and not the BT servers.
I can find no explanation as to why others are able to access the site.
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2006/9/4, Mike Brodbelt <mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk>:
> Pooly wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > since several weeks, I'm unable to access http://www.planetmysql.org/
> > both from home and from the office (the ISP is BT in both case), but
> > this w-e I went back to France and I had no problem accessing it.
> > Here, I can ping the server but lynx and firefox don't want to display
> > anything. Could you connect to the website ? What should I do to fix
> > the problem ?
>
> This kind of thing often happens with sites behind broken routers, when
> your kernel is setting TCP options that aren't correctly handled. Two
> common culprits are TCP ECN, and sliding window support. Try "cat
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn". If that returns a 1, you might want to try
> switching it off (echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn), and then try again.

it returns a 0.

Should I try to contact the admin at planetmysql.org ?

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