On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 08:45:22PM -0400, Matthew Bell wrote:
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> 
> For a while now I have had a problem with accessing certain sites with my
> netbsd mchine. It would access most sites I look up, but  I would run
> across a site that I couldn't access ( Ex: home.netscape.com,
> www.microsoft.com, www.citrix.com etc... ). At first I thought it could be
> a problem with the routing tables, but they check out OK. I don't know what
> it could be, so before I go and cry to my ISP I thought it would be a good
> thing to ask.

Are ICMP messages blocked at some place ? This prevent Path MTU Discovery
from working and could produce this kind of behavior. This is true
is your ppp MTU is less than 1500.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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