Re: problems proxying Altavista

Hi!

Pete's suggestion has solved our problems with Altavista (and with other
sites, too, it seems, as the error rate in the log file has dropped
considerably).

Thank you very much indeed!

Andreas

On Jul 30, 14:05, Pete Philips wrote:
> Subject: Re: problems proxying Altavista
> > > has this got anything to do with the fact that home.netscape.com and
> > > altavista are NOT viewable through my squid (1.0.3 right now)? or is
it
> > > something wrong with my setup?
> > >
> > I bet you're running your cache on a SUN running Solaris, connected to
the
> > Internet via an FDDI interface.
>
> Mmmm sounds like a problem I had sometime back under just the conditions
> you mention above. My solution was to reduce the MTU size (using
ifconfig)
> on the FDDI interface. The default is 4352 but if you reduce it to
> 1500, it should solve the problem :-)
>
> Pete
>
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