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

[Danielle Chynoweth]

Cool.  Thank you for the explanation and your work!

written without an __ becaue my ___ doen't work :)

Danielle

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Josh King <josh at ucimc.org> wrote:

> 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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