Thank you for Heiko's explanation and thank you all for the help. I was
trying to run a sniff test last night with that website and then found out
it suddenly works. Since I didn't change ANYTHING of my computer
configuration, I guess that is just the network problem here, either the
ISP's gateway or router or whatever or the other end blocked us. Anyway, it
is working now.
I am not sure whether they use tomcat. I guess they just use perl script
since it is a bbs site, no java script involved. But it is good to know.
Thank you again for all the help and everybody has a nice day!
//bow
Irene
-----Original Message-----
From: Lange, Heiko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 8:30 AM
To: Irene
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AW: help with network problem
we had a phenomen similiar to this (although i'm not sure, whether this is
the same cause)
when accessing an server, all computer got an answer execpt for one.
the reason behind this was the following:
the server we accessed was a bigIP which divided the workload on different
apache webservers behind.
once you connect to the bigIP it saves your IP or hostname, and would
ALLWAYS redirect you to the
same webserver behind. (this is done to ensure your open session is allways
on the same computer)
the bigIP would realize, when the apache webserver is down, but NOT if the
tomcat behind the apache
webserver is down. however, without the tomcat working for the apache you
would never get an answer.
(in our case the one computer not working was directed on the apache without
tomcat)
IF you've something similiar to what we had here, there's no chance you can
solve it on client
side. that would have to be done on server side. (except you could try to
get a different hostname/IP)
well, just an idea...
~Heiko
