[tlug] Connexions timing out to sunsolve.sun.com

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

I just compiled a new kernel (yes, I know, Chris, that will break 
*everything*), and noticed one piece of pretty strange behaviour. When I 
attempted to connect to http://sunsolve.sun.com/ or 
http://store.sun.com/, I would get a timeout. This is true from any web 
browser (I tried Galeon, Mozilla, and Lynx) and even a telnet to port 
80. The funny thing is, I do not get this with any other websites (that 
I have noticed in the past couple of days running with this kernel). I 
can also ping both sites quite happily.

I upgraded from RH7.2's default kernel (2.4.7) to 2.4.18. I am not doing 
anything fancy with iptables (or ipchains, for that matter). In fact, I 
reset my chains to ACCEPT and flushed 'em just to see if that would 
change anything. It did not. I cannot swear that ipfilter (for which I 
compiled support into the kernel (well, as a module which is being 
loaded, tashika ni)) is not doing anything, but I don't think so (where 
should one check?).

Basically, I looked around and did not see anything that would cause 
this behaviour. Maybe I did not look in the right place? 
/var/log/messages and /var/log/secure are two places where nothing was 
mentioned.

Needless to say (so why am I saying it?), I rebooted with the old kernel 
to see if the problem went away, and it did.

Any ideas? An RTFM with a kick in the right direction would not offend. ;)



-- 
Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>

Computer Science Undergrad
"No segfault, no problem!"