[fedora-india] Fwd: Problem in opening few sites in firefox 3.5.8 (F12)

On 06/11/2010 04:23 PM, Ayush Maheshwari wrote: > Hello all, > I'm using fedora 12 & firefox 3.5.8 . I'm having problem in opening > sites like > castrol.com <http://castrol.com>;, iitr.ac.in <http://iitr.ac.in>;, > wordpress.com <http://wordpress.com>;, etcetra . > Firefox resolves the DNS but waits infinitely for the data to be > transferred. > Somebody on IRC (#fedora) told me to change the DNS, which i don't > think is a culprit. Nevertheless, i tried google public DNS, Norton > DNS, open DNS as well as my ISP's DNS. > > The same problem was encountered with Ubuntu 9.04 but Mandriva '08 > loads it well. > Pinging can be done on the aforesaid sites, but as expected wget > doesn't work for any of those. > Your suggestions would be helpful. Perhaps you should try the setting in http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/