are Verizon and BU not on speaking terms?

[Brian J. Conway]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Seth Gordon wrote:

> From the browser in my office (Firefox on Debian etch), I can call up 
> www.bu.edu.  From the browser at home (Firefox on Ubuntu Feisty), I can't get 
> the Web page, even though I can ping and traceroute to the associated IP 
> address.
>
> Does anyone know what could be going on here?  How would I even begin to 
> diagnose/fix the problem?

Do you have any other OSes you can test from on your Verizon connection? 
I recently ran into a similar issue on some of my Debian Etch systems, 
depending on location:

http://inodes.org/blog/2006/09/06/tcp-window-scaling-and-kernel-2617/

Test of a problem site here:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/86841-bizarre-lack-http-response-problem.html

Just one of many possible issues, I'm sure.

Brian J. Conway

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