[lug] MPAA and Senate...again

[Peter Hutnick]

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On Friday 24 May 2002 01:35 pm, D. Stimits wrote:
> Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> > >From Slashdot.org, "MPAA to Senate: Plug the Analog Hole!"
> >
> > http://slashdot.org/articles/02/05/23/2355237.shtml?tid=97
>
> All slashdot stalls after the banners are done, no matter how many times
> I try to load it. Even a manual telnet to port 80 and issuing the GET /
> "HTTP/1.1" by hand shows it stalling after the font tag, every time.
> Something is wrong at slashdot, it has been this way for a couple of
> days at least.

The link loads fine for me.  I had a problem a while back where seemingly 
random stories wouldn't load. Maybe 10%.  It was specific to the stories.  
Story X wouldn't load when it was new, and the next day a new story would 
load fine, but X still wouldn't load.  I guess that there is some "story 
oriented load balancing" going on and one server was giving my system fits.

I use wireless over a slow (~24k) modem, so I had my browser configured to 
proxy on localhost:80 and had an ssh tunnel to a box on the wired network, 
which ran traffic through squid then junkbuster.  That box is in turn 
connected to an SMC Barricade that does NAT and has the modem on the WAN 
side.

I turned proxying off for slashdot and the problem went away.  I tried 
eliminating each element in turn, but I could never get certain stories to 
load unless I connected "directly" (via NAT).

So, is it possible you are behind a transparent proxy that is causing the 
problem?  A lot of ISPs are doing transparent proxying on port 80 to reduce 
bandwidth usage these days . . .

- -Peter

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