[NCLUG] Confirmation outside CWX for ebay problem

[jeff]

John L. Bass wrote:
> Thanks Jeff for confirming the problem is certainly outside CWX. Now the
> question is if this is a

/drum roll....

> FRII web caching problem,

Unlikely. I don't think they are transparent caching my co-lo (or if 
they are, it would be quite a surprise to me!)

> or a problem with some
> router at FRII,

Mmmm, possible but unlikely. It doesn't explain why OpenBSD is quite 
happy with the route.

> Denver NAP,

Same as FRII answer.

> or ebay.

Perhaps

OR, as evelyn suggested, akamai. That's where I'm placing my bets.

Perhaps there is some new manifestation of Explicit Congestion 
Notification (ECN) issue and whatever akamai is using.

> In my own testing, I have found as many machines/IP's don't have any problem,
> as the number of machines/IP's that do have a problem. So I think it would
> be a little hasty to consider this a Linux only problem unless a sweep of
> a Class C showed only Linux boxes have the problem. I believe (and will have
> to re-verify this) that a windows browser had the same problem here.

Windows tests would confirm/deny that the problem is tied to Linux and 
something between FRII & ebay. Thank god I don't have to do the testing. ;)

In sum, my hunch is Linux issue with something between FRII & eBay. 
Whatever it is, isn't between argentina & ebay. I'll be back in a couple 
days so I can test my from my laptop (which worked fine in .ar) once i'm 
on the FRII network again.

I should also note that my OpenBSD firewall is scrubbing the Linux packets.

Have fun,

-Jeff