Re: 2.6.17.1: fails to fully get webpage

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 10:50:00AM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Basically the mostlikely end-result is I don't know what there is a
problem and my customer doesn't know that there is a problem but they're
just not getting as many hits to their site that they otherwise would.

Ofcourse, this all depends if such a situation is possible. If it is
possible would it affect dns and mail in a similar manner too?

I'm glad David Miller clarified this, because I was about to send a
"don't do that" followup ;-)

:) I don't know how I got the wrong config option to modify but there
you go. :)

But your example is misleading, or at least doesn't reflect customers I
know. While a few clients with broken network connections may be
unhappy, disabling scaling will make your web server really, really,
slow, and that will make everyone unhappy. Particularly if the web
content is flash or 2MB jpegs, or other ill-chosen stuff. You don't want
people to think you are running at dial-up speeds.

Which would be why I wont move from 2.6.16.x for my servers unless I
really, really, really have to. I don't know how many broken sites are
out there and I cannot tell.

Another datapoint to this is that I've had this my netcat web test
running since 8:42pm yesterday. It's 8:37am now. It hasn't progressed
in any way. It hasn't quit. It hasn't timed out. It just sits there,
hung. This leads me to consider the possibility of a DOS, either
intentional or accidental (think about 2.6.17.x running on a mail server
and someone mails/spams from a broken place).

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