> Hey! Yahoo and an increasing number of other sites are using a > fsck'ed form of load-balancing that depends on your machine > (firewall anyway) answering tons of requests from placed DNS servers > around the world. The LEAF variants don't readily conform to making > all these replies, so there are issues with this type of > load-balancing working if the webpage does NOT specify a default or > fall-back procedure does not work as expected. If this is your > problem, you should see a ton of DNS requests in your logs denied at > the firewall OR a ton of connect connections via DNS ports on the > firewall (that sometimes chokes out a connection). In any case, > this behaviour is non-rfc compliant and not readily fixable until it > can be changed to behave in a rfc-compliant way. I can say that it > may or may not work depending on the particular code of the html > page that is processed. If you can link a 'failed page', I can tell > you whether or not this is the problem.
Two sites that work great when I connect directly to the dsl modem (using pppoe on a Debian Testing system) but are unusable when I go through LEAF are epicurious.com and winespectator.com. Yahoo.com too, as discussed. They're not blocked, just incredibly -- 10 minutes per page -- slow. Also, it helps to click on the links multiple times, as if most outgoing packets resulting from those clicks were being dropped. I'm not seeing any denied packets in the shorewall logs when running Bering. I don't have shorewall on the laptop. There are no ports open other than to 192.168.1.* (as per /etc/hosts.allow). Two other pieces of information. 1) Bering and Bering-uClib behave the same. I was wrong before about only the uClib version having the problem. I've had some perceived performance problems with Bering-uClib at one location but it was nothing like what I'm seeing now with stock Bering 1.0. 2) Bering does NOT have this problem when used on at ATT cable connection. Yahoo and the rest are fine. So it's somehow related to pppoe or maybe to PacBell/SBC. I've seen this with Mozilla and lynx and links. Have not yet checked whether it happens if the host is not running Linux, but can't see how that'd make a difference. Thanks, --Eric -- ****************************************************************************** * From the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Crosswords 4.0 for PalmOS is out!: <http://www.peak.org/~fixin/xwords> * ****************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
