Re: "connection refused" error with dsl-connection

[Duane Powers <duane@uberLAN.net>]

Harald Stangl wrote:

> Hi all,
> i've got some strange problem with my internet connection via dsl:
> When I try to reach certain pages, I get a message in mozilla that tells me,
> that the connection was refused by the peer. This happens only when i try to
> reach some encrypted pages, such as www.elsterformular.de.
> Now the curious part: When I establish the connection via isdn, everything
> works fine!
> I use IP Masquerading in both cases, and already tried to set the mtu for
> dsl to 1412. My Kernel-Ver is 2.2, so the ECN disabling doesn't work for me
> (tried it but didn't work).
> If anyone got an idea what the problem could be, I would be very happy.
This is very often caused if your ISP does not have reverse dns built 
for your ip-space.  Verify that you have reverse records, even if you 
use dynamic ip's, and if no records exist, request that your ISP add it.

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Duane Powers
uberLAN.net