[NCLUG] wierd problem

[Aaron D. Johnson]

> I can't get www.sun.com to come into my computer. I know it's up
> because I can ssh into a friend's computer and use lynx to get it
> but my system won't do it. The other oddity is that it's only the
> sun website... I can even get java.sun.com but not sun.com...

You're running a 2.4 kernel, right?  You should try again after doing
"sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=0" as root.  This will turn off the ECN
stuff that a few firewalls out there still freak out about.

- Aaron