28 Dec
2005
28 Dec
'05
6:35 p.m.
Mehgan Laveck wrote: [Ebay woes]
There seem to be some thoughts as to akamai being the possible culprit, specifically as it interacts with Linux. I'm hoping a few of you Linux users out there will give it a shot, telnetting to port 80 on these IPs several times to see if you can get a failure. Any thoughts on this issue are greatly appreciated.
I once had similar problems which turned out to be due to TCP ECN being enabled. Use tcpdump/tethereal to look at what's going on. Check /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn on the affected boxes. Will