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Date:      Mon, 27 Jan 1997 21:42:08 +1100 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To:        Robert Chalmers <robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD ISP <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>, bsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: oddities with some carriers? maybe
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970127214104.13981P-100000@panda.hilink.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199701270745.RAA05452@nanguo.chalmers.com.au>

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On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Robert Chalmers wrote:

> I've noticed some oddities over the last 6 months with some networks
> or carriers. I can't pin down which. I have found two companies so
> far that have trouble retrieving info from over here. Yahoo and 
> Linkexchange are two. This is most noticable when they are trying to
> retrieve something from my site using their cgi scripts to either update
> search engines, or in the case of linkexchange, retrieve the banner.gif to 
> put in their database.
> 
> My link here is only 28.8, and I know that this could be the source of 
> some problems, however, I am beginning to suspect something much lower
> down the chain.

Your problem is that eros.chalmers.com.au is an Annex, and Annexes munge 
tcp extensions.  Turn off the TCP extensions and you'll be happy.

cheers,

Danny



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