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/