FreeBSD.org website problems was: Serial speed for boot device selection prompt

Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 10:36:28AM -0700, Sean Bruno wrote:
Thanks for the pointers. I am currently unable to access www.freebsd.org for some reason. It appears that I get a timeout trying to retrieve anything from the web site. Other folks in my office seem to have the same problem, yet I can access the web site from my home network.

Any ideas what the connection issues might be?

Someone else recently reported similar on their FreeBSD box, and the fix
for them was to disable RFC1323 TCP window scaling. Try this:

sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0

If this works for you, you can place the variable=value portion in
/etc/sysctl.conf for application upon start-up.

If your FreeBSD box acts as a gateway for the rest of your office, and
the then that might explain why others are seeing the same thing.
Otherwise the problem is likely not FreeBSD-related, and you should
talk to your office networking folks to find out what's going on.

Interesting, what is _really_ going on with the website?

I was having connectivity issues to www.freebsd.org from linux, netbsd and freebsd machines. After adjusting the appropriate value for linux, netbsd and freebsd the issues seem to clear.

Under linux adjust:

net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling

Under FreeBSD/NetBSD adjust:

net.inet.tcp.rfc1323

Sean
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