Firefox and chrome doesn'l load certain sites

phil128 · April 15, 2010, 6:11pm

Hi. I’m using the latest opensuse 11.2 (KDE4) with all of the updates.
But recently i cannot access ebay or hotmail. I cannot even ping them at all i haven’t changed anything either.

Has anybody had problems like this at all?

Really need your help

vodoo · April 15, 2010, 6:19pm

But recently i cannot access ebay or hotmail. I cannot even ping them at all

Does this mean that you can access other sites? Are you behind a firewall or proxy where the sysadmin has blocked certain sites?

phil128 · April 15, 2010, 6:27pm

Thanks for the reply. the main site’s i use are hotmail,ebay, and my university’s oracle database. They were all fine this morning and when i done some security updates then things went weird on me. None of the major browsers can access these sites at all,

phil128 · April 15, 2010, 6:28pm

Opps sorry. Yeah i can access other sites like google and this one and youtube etc etc fine. I’m behind the standard firewall thts with suse

user · April 15, 2010, 6:28pm

have you disabled IPv6?

phil128 · April 15, 2010, 6:39pm

Hi. Ipv6 is enabled. This is bloody weird.

subcook69420 · April 15, 2010, 7:49pm

Did you try reinstalling mozilla or chrome?

phil128 · April 15, 2010, 8:01pm

Yup tried that. Still doesn’t work. When i try to login into hotmail i just get the “Sign In(In the tab, in firefox)” and thats it. No login screen or pictures.

user · April 16, 2010, 12:22am

On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:06:02 +0000, phil128 wrote for a reply:

> Yup tried that. Still doesn’t work. When i try to login into hotmail i
> just get the “Sign In(In the tab, in firefox)” and thats it. No login
> screen or pictures.

If you can’t ping the site then the problem isn’t with the browsers it’s
with your connection. Something is interfering with your connection to
those sites.

In the past, I had problems with the size of my MTU which I lowered to
get better connections but you’re at a university so I’d check with your
sysadmins about your problem. They’re the ones to fix it.

–
Chill@opensuse.forum

phil128 · April 16, 2010, 12:41am

Hi. For some reason i can access them sites now <@_@> but i noticed my MTU size was set to “automatic”. I’ve changed this is 1500 bytes.

I didn’t think lowering the transmission bytes improves the connection. I thought lowering it actually decreased the performance, due to the overall size of the packet is smaller, hence less data can be sent with each packet.

user · April 16, 2010, 12:03pm

phil128 wrote:
> Hi. For some reason i can access them sites now <@_@> but i noticed my
> MTU size was set to “automatic”. I’ve changed this is 1500 bytes.
>
> I didn’t think lowering the transmission bytes improves the connection.
> I thought lowering it actually decreased the performance, due to the
> overall size of the packet is smaller, hence less data can be sent with
> each packet.

but, not all connections can actually pass all sizes…

if you, for example have MTU set to 1500 and the connection can only
pass 1490 it has to send twice (the second time for that last 10),
but, if you set 1489 it all moves in one go and is QUICKER…

you can discover your optimum MTU and then set it with info in this
thread: http://tinyurl.com/ydhz3pa

mine is 1472, and faster than 1500!