"tcptraceroute" (or "traceroute -T" in some versions) could possibly expose the culprit, it's a very useful tool to have in your toolbox for such situations.
On 9 June 2015 at 11:34, David <da...@kenpro.com.au> wrote: > It seems that "an upstream supplier" has made changes that specifically > require an MTU of 1492. Problem solved. > > Only some sites were affected, which made it confusing. I can't imagine > why anyone would do this and not tell anybody. My reseller couldn't tell me > who the "upstream supplier" is, except that it isn't TPG. > > Go figure. > > On 08/06/15 18:41, Amos Shapira wrote: > > You probably refer to the drop of support for NPAPI (e.g. article in > http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/24/google-chrome-will-block-all-netscape-plugin-api-plugins-in-january-drop-support-completely-in-september/ > about Chrome but Firefox is following cloesely behind). > > There are temporary work-around provided by Google to keep letting some > plugins to be enabled by some sites, but they are all expected to be gone > by the end of 2015 so should better find alternatives soon. > > As for the original question - I doubt that it's a plugin issue. It > sounds more like some of the dependent resources on these pages are being > blocked or otherwise (temporarily?) unavailable. What does the JavaScript > console show? Do you have some corporate proxy which could be misbehaving? > > Just for shits and giggles, I visited www.trivago.com.au and had no > problem accessing it, even on my flaky home ADSL2+ line. > > --Amos > > On 8 June 2015 at 17:13, DaZZa <dazzagi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What browser? >> >> Recently, Chrome (and possibly Firefox) decided that all java pugins (and >> others like Silverlight) were "unsecured", and the simply stopped allowing >> the plugins to work. >> >> Broke countless business-related Web sites - I had a storm of them, all >> being blamed on "the firewall", or "the network". >> >> I can't find the reference articles I dug up at the time as I'm mobile, >> but try a different browser and see if that helps. >> >> DaZZa >> On 08/06/2015 3:24 PM, "david" <da...@kenpro.com.au> wrote: >> >> > I have a "business ethernet" internet connection from a TPG reseller. >> > >> > Suddenly some external websites or partial websites are inaccessible >> from >> > local clients. I haven't yet figured out a pattern, but it looks like >> > javascript or some such is holding up the webpage download. The browser >> is >> > waiting for a script or css or something not immediately obvious. I get >> the >> > same problem with different browsers. >> > >> > Some sites work perfectly - eg Westpac. The ABC site works, but after >> > apparently loading it then constantly waits for something but I can't >> tell >> > what. Some google responses work and some don't. >> > >> > For example, http://www.trivago.com.au waits indefinitely for >> > jse.trivago.com and never loads, although I can telnet to port 80. BTW, >> > lynx works fine - which makes me more suspicious that it's CSS or some >> such. >> > >> > I rang the help desk late on Friday. They suggested DNS (??), but I >> don't >> > think that's it because I tried using an external DNS server and in any >> > case there doesn't seem to be any resolution problem. On their >> suggestion >> > I've rebooted both the Cisco router and NTU with no change. Does anybody >> > have any thoughts? >> > >> > David >> > -- >> > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> > >> -- >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> > > > > -- > <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> > > > -- > David McQuire0418 310312 > > -- <http://au.linkedin.com/in/gliderflyer> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html