This problem is probably not Linux-related, but you never know...
Back in early July, after a hard disk failure in my openSUSE 11.2
system, I did a fresh install of openSUSE 12.3 (64-bit) on a new drive.
Some weeks after that, I tried to log into my account on prestocard.ca
(I'm an occasional OC Transpo user) to check my balance, and I got a
connection reset message ("The connection to the server was reset while
the page was loading" in Firefox). I'd had no problem getting to the
site when I previously used it back in June. I assumed at first it was
a temporary problem with busy servers, but when I tried again over the
next few days, I continued to get the same response. I tried a few
things like removing the cookies for that site, and also trying a
different browser, but to no avail. I also tried connecting from my
wife's Windows box (which connects to the net using my Linux box as a
NAT gateway) using various browsers, but still got the connection reset
response every time. Then I tried connecting to prestocard.ca through a
public proxy server, and that worked just fine.
At this point, I called the Presto people and explained my problem.
After a few days, they called back and basically disavowed any knowledge
of a problem. They said that they had not received any other similar
complaints, and that their website would not blacklist a particular IP
address or block of addresses (the person calling didn't sound like a
real techie type, though). I was told to contact my ISP (Rogers), but I
haven't bothered doing that since I'm pretty sure they would be
clueless. If my IP was in a block that somehow got blacklisted, I would
expect problems getting to some other websites, but prestocard.ca seems
to be the one and only site that doesn't like me.
Any theories about what could cause this odd problem?
Barry
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Barry McLarnon Ottawa, ON