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["Eric Sandall" <sandalle AT hellhound.homeip.net>]

Tobias Marx said:
> hi,
>
> i've recently had some problems while loading particular sites, galeon
> would just said: "Connection refused" (eg. www.shortnews.de, but also
> some spell sites (what led to problems during some casts)).
> first i thought it was a problem with my dsl provider and their proxy,
> but after doing some additional research on the web, i've found the real
> cause. it is as "faulty" kernel setting.
> if you experience equal problems check "IP: TCP Explicit Congestion
> Notification support" under "Networking options". Some faulty firewalls
> will cause trouble when it is enabled. You can disable it at runtime
> with: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn.
>
> maybe my experiences will help some people sometimes. :)
>
> bye,
> Tobias

I recently had a problem when restaring my shorewall firewall that I loose
all routing capabilities for my server only, all of my clients behind the
firewall/router can still do DNS lookups.  I'll try this and see if it
fixes it (please yes!).

Thank you,

-One of Three

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