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[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Mike Reinehr:
> Ok, I guess it's me then.
> 
> I've tried this link with both Konqueror (v2.2.2) and with Mozilla (v1.4) and 
> gotten the same result, a status message "connecting with www.vnunet.com" and 
> then nothing happens for about five minutes until, finally, I receive a 
> time-out error message.

[...]

> I've encounted at least two other websites over the past several months which 
> have done the same thing. One of them, that I can recall at the moment, is 
> www.ingrammicro.com. I've been doing business with I-M for years, but earlier 
> this year, all of a sudden, I could no longer connect to their website, 
> unless I switched to IE (I normally use Mozilla).
> 
> Any insight would be appreciated. Is anyone else having this problem, or is 
> it just me?

It must be just you. I get to Ingram Micro and all of the other sites
without incident. Note that an increasing number of sites are using
ECN, Explicit Congestion Notification, which _might_ be your problem.
I would check other possible causes first, though. Name resolution 
problems might be it. Can you ping and traceroute to these sites you
suddenly can't reach?

Kurt
-- 
If I traveled to the end of the rainbow
As Dame Fortune did intend,
Murphy would be there to tell me
The pot's at the other end.
		-- Bert Whitney