[Ilugc] [OT?] Many sites not opening - BSNL BB
- From: rajanvn@xxxxxxxxx (Natarajan V)
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 20:21:16 +0530
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Girish Venkatachalam
<girishvenkatachalam at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Natarajan V <rajanvn at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Akilan R <akilan27 at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Natarajan V <rajanvn at gmail.com> wrote:
Set MTU to 1452 and check if the sites load.
Great! That worked. Now, let me try to find out how that happened :-)
Thanks a lot!
Well, this documentation seems to be concise enough:
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/695
The following is what *think* might have happened.
MTU is largest size of each packet. The default value is 1500. But
seems like this size is too big for some networks. When I observed
more closely, some sites just didn't load at all. The othersites (such
as thehindu & slashdot), start to load, and they keep waiting for
ever. The site has been waiting indefinitely for some content to be
loaded from other domains whose routes accept smaller than 1500.
That's why some sites stopped loading midway, while others never
loaded at all.
I see. Such pointed tech answers are rare in LUG.
Don't you remember that iLugC is one of those rare LUGs where you do
get such answers :-)
However this is bad advertisement for Linux.
No it isn't. It's just a good documentation for others who might also
face a similar problem.
How can something so silly bite you?
:(
1. Am not a network-admin, but more of an App Developer
2. I couldn't relate the symptoms with the cause.
with regards,
Natarajan
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