> There was a report at linuxtoday.com about a newly support IP header bit > that indicates a congested network. Anyway, turns out if this bit is > set, many prominent web sites will drop the IP packets. The idea is, > the system can throttle packet sending to reduce drops/resends. I > forgot the name of the bit, but you might want to make sure it's turned > off. IBM was among the sites listed as dropping packets...
Interesting. BTW, the failure differs between the two sites ... IBM times out while CDW returns immdediately with "Not Accepting Connections .. server might be busy blah blah blah"
