General Weirdness with http://www.ask.com

From: Graham Dunn <gdunn@dont-contact.us>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:02:29 -0500 (EST)

Hi,

I'm experiencing some oddness trying to get through to the AskJeeves
website and trying to find out if the problem is us/them, or a combination
of the two. The rest of the Internet works for us, and I can access this
site from other domains, so I'm at a loss.

www.ask.com technical support has been unable to resolve this issue.

Basically, the exchange goes like this:

We connect through squid to their site. Sometimes we get back the entire
first page, sometimes not. After that, all requests will return just the
HTTP header and up to the <body> tag. The request eventually times out.

No entries appear in access.log until the client times out, then we get
things like:

921170678.868 498002 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 347 GET http://www.ask.com -
DIRECT/www.ask.com text/html

or

921170678.868 374010 127.0.0.1 TCP_HIT/200 239 GET http://www.ask.com -
NONE/- text/html

Any ideas ?

--client -p 8080 -r http://www.ask.com --output--
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/4.0
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 16:52:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Expires: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:22:00 GMT
Set-Cookie: SITESERVER=ID=152ADD87D2D7D211BD3C00A0C9ECEC3B; expires=Fri,
30-Dec-2005 08:00:00 GMT; path=/
Set-Cookie: ASPSESSIONIDQGQGQGPM=LLDAFHKDPPKJNCCEAABNHOCK; path=/
Cache-Control: Public
Age: 61
X-Cache: MISS from inm.sentex.ca
Proxy-Connection: close
--end client output--

--tcpdump (with squid)--
11:53:01.533535 inm.sentex.ca.2579 > www.askjeeves.com.http: S
787677771:787677771(0) win 512 <mss 1460>
11:53:01.843535 www.askjeeves.com.http > inm.sentex.ca.2579: S
2660973:2660973(0) ack 787677772 win 8760 <mss 1460> (DF)
11:53:01.843535 inm.sentex.ca.2579 > www.askjeeves.com.http: . ack 1 win
32120 (DF)
11:53:01.863535 inm.sentex.ca.2579 > www.askjeeves.com.http: P 1:200(199)
ack 1 win 32120 (DF)
11:53:02.213535 www.askjeeves.com.http > inm.sentex.ca.2579: P 1:346(345)
ack 200 win 8561 (DF)
11:53:02.213535 www.askjeeves.com.http > inm.sentex.ca.2579: P
1806:1808(2) ack 200 win 8561 (DF)
11:53:02.213535 inm.sentex.ca.2579 > www.askjeeves.com.http: . ack 346 win
32120 (DF)
11:53:03.783535 inm.sentex.ca.2579 > www.askjeeves.com.http: . ack 346 win
32120 (DF)
<timeout>
--end tcpdump--

Thanks to anyone who actually tries to wade through all that :]

-- 
   gdunn@ineural.com	 Graham Dunn         || ||| | ||| |||| | |||| | 
Systems Administrator - International Neural Machines Inc. - Waterloo, ON
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Received on Thu Mar 11 1999 - 10:08:16 MST

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