OK... here's a weird one.
I have a Novell/SUSE system (10.1) that I've been using as my primary means of accessing a bunch of UNIX systems at work. I've been trying to download Solaris documentation from docs.sun.com using this system and various browsers and the downloads
never complete. I can get the docs using Firefox on Windows. I can download the docs from home using the wife's system that running an even older version of SUSE. All I get on the 10.1 system is either a "Starting..." message in Firefox's download window or it'll get 2K, 4K, or, if I'm really lucky, 20K and then hang. Using any other browser -- even "lynx" -- on the 10.1 system results in pretty much the same thing. No firewall is in use on this system. The only thing that seems to work is "wget" but even then I had to resort to a command like
Code:
wget -c --timeout=5 -t 1000 <url>
to get a file to download. (Last night it took 270 attempts to get a 1.9MB PDF to download!) It's not
only downloads that hang. Sometimes it takes a dozen clicks to get a complete web page to load from some sites.
The mysterious part is that it's not
all web sites that produce this problem. Someone at work mentioned that it might be Java-related -- which wouldn't surprise me with the problem getting stuff from Sun's site -- but I have my doubts about that. (Though I'm ready to accept just about
any explanation about now.) I've experimented turning Java and Javascript on and off in the browsers and the problem doesn't seem to clear up.
I am planning an upgrade to a newer OS release whenever a "slow" day comes along. (Yeah, right, a slow day.)
Any ideas as to what might be the culprit here?
TIA
--
Rick
