[plug] Kernel 2.4.4 and accessing *some* SSL web sites.

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 22 May 2001, James Bromberger wrote:

> Has anyone had any intermittent problems with accessing some HTTPS web 
> sites (port 443)?  I have a pair of linux boxen (Debian, naturally) both 
> of which have the 2.4 kernel series on them (as I described last week 
> when I was looking at PPTP, which turned out to be my local firewall 
> at home *cough*). I can't seem to telnet to port 443 on some web servers, 

You don't perchance have ECN enabled do you?

That shouldn't restrict your problems to just port 443, but maybe the
sites you are accessing have more restrictive (read: stupid) firewalls in
front of the secure servers.

Other than that, I have no idea what could be causing it.

 - Matt