[UCIMC-Tech] Can't access google on IMC's wireless

[Josh King]

Hi Danielle,

This is a long-standing problem with the IMC's firewall, due to a
difference between the way OpenBSD (the operating system on the
firewall) and other operating systems use TCP window scaling. I don't
know why it tends to effect efforts to access google more than other
sites, but I'm building a second firewall to swap in to fix the problem.
I hope to get it done by the end of the week (it's mostly put together),
but what with other work it might take until early next week.

Danielle Chynoweth wrote:
> Hi Tech folk,
> 
> Although I was able to get on IMC's wireless (yea!), when trying to
> navigate to Google or gmail or doing any google searching, I on a Mac
> and my friend on a PC got this error:
> 
> Safari can't open the page
> "http://www.google.com/search?q=test&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
> <http://www.google.com/search?q=test&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8>". The error was:
> "Operation could not be completed. (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error 302.)"
> (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork:302) Please choose Report Bugs to Apple from
> the Safari menu, note the error number, and describe what you did before
> you saw this message.
> 
> I am curious as to what caused it and thought you might want to know.
> 
> - Danielle
> 
> 
> 
> 
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