Re: Only some websites will open - Ubuntu

Big Dave Smith wrote:
On May 30, 3:59 am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@xxx> wrote:
Big Dave Smith wrote:
On May 29, 10:52 pm, johnny bobby bee <useraddshine...@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Big Dave Smith wrote:
I have installed vmware-server and am running WindowsXP inside of it,
which does not exhibit the same problem.
are you running firefox on windows, or IE?

I know of several sites that (on my Windoze 98 setup) do the same ..in
Firefox.

Their HTML and javascript causes massive indigestion in Firefox.

Most sites that are written by non techie types are designed to work
with IE only - they never validate with Firefox/opera etc etc.

I suggest upgrading at least to the latest latest Firefox you can find,
and checking that out before hacking into your networking layers.

Philosopher, Thanks for the reply.

I don't think this is the issue. I do a bit of web-design myself, and
some of the sites which I'm unable to open are dead-simple.
toothpastefordinner.com, for example. Also, like I said, if I keep
hitting refresh, the page DOES actually load a tiny bit at a time,
which I find bizarre. Almost like after it gets the header and
whatever extra bits are stuck to it, it shuts down.


Then that does sound like lots ACKS or somesuch in the networking layers somewhere.

To answer you, I am using FireFox 2 on everything (Kubuntu, other
computers on the same network, and WindowsXP running in vmware), but
have tried other browsers to make sure it's not firefox being odd.
Slowly narrowing it down!

I have sen behaviour of this sort in the bad old days with pretty dire network cards and drivers. Or severe packet loss.

Try pings to the targets with varying length packets: If they all by and large succeed you at least know that the most basic IP layers are not the problem.

Also remove all proxying - but you did that already I guess ;-)

IIRC some part of netstat will also dump any bad packets or error packets - those are worth looking for.


here you go

tempest:~# netstat -i
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
eth0 1500 0 8722483 0 0 0 9726410 0 0 0 BMRU
lo 16436 0 79130 0 0 0 79130 0 0 0 LRU
tempest:~#

MTU at 1500 on my box, and zero interface errors at all.


Thanks again
-Dave

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