[TriLUG] MS Web Host drops connecions from Linux clients
Brian Phelps
brphelps at ieee.org
Tue Nov 3 10:54:50 EST 2009
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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