interesting networking problem

Danial Thom danial_thom at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 17 07:48:51 PDT 2005



--- "N.J. Thomas" <njt at ayvali.org> wrote:

> [Domain name and IP addresses changed.]
> 
> So there is a website, example.org, that I am
> trying to connect to.
> 
> I can connect to this site (via http) *very*
> intermittently. If I run "wget
> example.org", I get the page exactly, once, but
> if I run the same command
> immediately after, I get connection reset
> errors, e.g.:
> 
>     $ wget example.org
>     --09:54:48--  http://example.org/
>                => `index.html'
>     Resolving example.org... 192.168.1.5
>     Connecting to
> example.org|192.168.1.5|:80... connected.
>     HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200
> OK
>     Length: unspecified [text/html]
> 
>         [  <=>                                 
>                               ] 19,830       
> 52.46K/s
> 
>     09:54:48 (52.39 KB/s) - `index.html' saved
> [19830]
> 
>     $ wget example.org
>     --09:54:49--  http://example.org/
>                => `index.html.1'
>     Resolving example.org... 192.168.1.5
>     Connecting to
> example.org|192.168.1.5|:80... connected.
>     HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
> Read error (Connection reset by peer) in
> headers.
>     Retrying.
> 
>     --09:54:53--  http://example.org/
>       (try: 2) => `index.html.1'
>     Connecting to
> example.org|192.168.1.5|:80... connected.
>     HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
> Read error (Connection reset by peer) in
> headers.
>     Retrying.
>     ^C
> 
> If I wait couple of minutes and try again, the
> same thing happens...
> 
> Normally I would write the whole thing off as a
> problem on their side,
> but I have access to other machines on
> different networks and in
> different cities and they both seem to have no
> problems accessing this
> page. In addition, I had a brief chat with
> someone on their side and
> they said they are not aware of any errors like
> this with anyone else
> who tries to connect to them.
> 
> (They apparently block pings at the firewall --
> I cannot ping them from
> any machine.)
> 
> How can I debug this further?
> 
> thanks,
> Thomas
> 
> -- 
> N.J. Thomas
> njt at ayvali.org
> Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo

Why don't you look at the http headers and see
what's happening? 


		
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