[Prob. OT] Help with web/http weirdness
All of a sudden (noticed yesterday (10/16), know it worked last weekend
(10/9)), I can't get a response from several websites, including
www.debian.org. Lynx makes the connection, then says "HTTP request sent;
waiting for response". Netscape says something similar ("Request sent
to www.debian.org, waiting for response", or some such). The client
appears not to matter: Netscape, lynx, wget, reportbug (with LDAP
disabled). OTOH, apt-get works (but it's going to a different host...).
It's not just www.debian.org -- I get exactly the same symptom with
www.gnu.org, stats.distributed.net, and others. OTOH, most sites are
okay -- slashdot, freshmeat, zdnet, whatever.
My machine at work works just fine, so it's not that the sites are bad.
It's not all sites from home, so my machines aren't totally screwed.
I have one machine (molehole) ADSL'd to swbell, which has been up with
the same IP address for 70 days, and the another (speedy) which is
connected to the first, and too the net via ip forwarding/masquerading.
Listing the forwarding setup while in "wait mode" (ipfwadm -M) doesn't
seem any different for those sites that work vs. those that don't. FWIW,
this setup has been working and untouched since May. I get the same
symptom from either machine. Molehole runs slink (Linux 2.0.35), speedy
runs potato.
Reverse DNS works for my address, although it is not the same name as
'hostname --fqdn'.
The only change that I can think of is that I updated several packages
from the slink this week. This would be the obvious place to look,
except that the packages updated were:
dpkg dpkg-dev exim exim-mon man-db apt lprng
none of which (to me, at least) seem obvious candidates to have screwed
up something that would affect this.
Can/would anybody shed some light, or suggest experiments?
Thanks,
Steve
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Steve Greenland <vmole@swbell.net>
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