Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:53:14 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Network related |
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:38:43PM -0500, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > My guess is that this is becuase you have IPv6 turned on, and these sites > resolve to an IPv6 address, as well as an IPv4 address. Linux will not, > under these circumstances, fall back on the IPv4 address. Turn of IPv6, > or connect to the 6bone.
Good theory, apart from a major flaw - www.nvidia.com nor www.sun.com resolve to any IPv6 records (AAAA nor A6).
A better explaination would probably be ECN, and indeed, I am unable to reach www.sun.com from a local ECN-enabled host.
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:29:17 -0500 (EST) > Alp ATICI <atici@math.columbia.edu> wrote: > > > I get a "connection timed out". Most of the sites work ok but some > > specific ones like www.nvidia.com, www.sun.com, www.ingdirect.com > > never works and gives the same error.
-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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