On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Herbert Xu wrote:

Stephen Hemminger [off-list ref] wrote:

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A number of websites, ping, traceroute work correctly but I simply can't
connect to several including:

- store.apple.com
- youtube.com
- ANZ internet banking (anz.com.au)
- MSN messenger

I failed to reproduce this on 2.6.28-rc9.  I even used the same
IP address as shown in your pcap file, 17.149.156.10.

Same for me, though I don't have ppp in the setup like he does
(see the mail in the other thread).

In fact, your pcap file shows that the two kernels produce almost
exactly the same content in the TCP headers. The only material
difference was the window size, which differed by 32 bytes.

Yeah, nothing wrong with tcp/ip side.

So I'd suggest you take a look at other nodes on the path between
you and those websites, or try turning things such as window
scaling off.

He did already turn things off without any success, the original report 
for ubuntu is at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/296767

I doubt that the original reporter received this mail anyway... There's 
another thread (fwd by Andrew) which has more content already.

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