[plug] Web browsing wierdness

[Adrian Blockley]

G'day all,

I got this frustrating problem trying to access some web sites with my 
Linux box (Redhat 6.0, kernel 2.2.20 Mozilla1.1, lynx ?.??). I can 
access most sites but it seems I can no longer access freshmeat and 
slashdot. I thought originally that it was something like a DNS or a 
routing problem but the name seems to resolve and i can use lcrzoex to 
download the http header i.e. lcrzoex 96 freshmeat.net 80 /
results in:

Return 200 (OK)
Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.19.1a PHP/4.2.3
Content-Type: text/html
Location: Content-length: -1
  48 54 54 50  2F 31 2E 31  20 32 30 30  20 4F 4B 0D     # HTTP/1.1 200 
OK.
  0A 44 61 74  65 3A 20 53  75 6E 2C 20  32 30 20 4F     # .Date: Sun, 
20 O
  63 74 20 32  30 30 32 20  31 33 3A 33  32 3A 30 30     # ct 2002 
13:32:00
  20 47 4D 54  0D 0A 53 65  72 76 65 72  3A 20 41 70     #  
GMT..Server: Ap
  61 63 68 65  2F 31 2E 33  2E 32 37 20  28 55 6E 69     # ache/1.3.27 
(Uni
  78 29 20 6D  6F 64 5F 67  7A 69 70 2F  31 2E 33 2E     # x) 
mod_gzip/1.3.
  31 39 2E 31  61 20 50 48  50 2F 34 2E  32 2E 33 0D     # 19.1a 
PHP/4.2.3.
  0A 58 2D 50  6F 77 65 72  65 64 2D 42  79 3A 20 50     # 
.X-Powered-By: P
  48 50 2F 34  2E 32 2E 33  0D 0A 58 2D  41 63 63 65     # 
HP/4.2.3..X-Acce
  6C 65 72 61  74 65 64 2D  42 79 3A 20  50 48 50 41     # lerated-By: 
PHPA
  2F 31 2E 33  2E 33 0D 0A  43 6F 6E 6E  65 63 74 69     # 
/1.3.3..Connecti
  6F 6E 3A 20  63 6C 6F 73  65 0D 0A 43  6F 6E 74 65     # on: 
close..Conte
  6E 74 2D 54  79 70 65 3A  20 74 65 78  74 2F 68 74     # nt-Type: 
text/ht
  6D 6C 0D 0A  0D 0A                                     # ml....


If it try Mozilla to reach the site the throbber throbs and the status 
bar says that its sending the request to freshmeat. Other than that it 
does nothing. It doesn't even seem to time out; it just sits there 
spinning its wheels, so to speak. I have used lcrzoex to try and 
download the freshmeat and slashdot index pages but seem to get no 
response (more wheel spinning).

Frustratingly enough I can boot into Win95 and it allows me to view 
both slashdot and freshmeat but I really don't want to boot into 
anything winblown to get my daily fix.

I dimly suspect there may be a problem with ppp and something my isp 
has changed at their end within the past couple of months, but I 
confess to being quite clueless as to what it might be. For what its 
worth ifconfig ppp0 gives:

  ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol            inet 
addr:203.12.166.229  P-t-P:203.12.166.15  Mask:255.255.255.255
           UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:296  Metric:1
           RX packets:2674 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1
           TX packets:2232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:10

Does anyone have any suggestions?

A truly bewildered

Adrian Blockley


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