I don't know if this is a CentOS7/Firefox problem or one with the distant web site slashdot.org. I can connect to it just fine with the latest Firefox on my Windows 10 desktop PC, but not with Firefox 52.6.0 on this CentOS 7.4 laptop. This has been an on-going problem for several weeks.
Google search results are sketchy. slashdot.org may have been a DDOS target today, but as I write this network monitors say it's up and running. RC4 deprecation may be a factor, but I doubt it. I can traceroute to the site just fine, and its URL resolves with no trouble.
The error message I'm getting is "The connection has timed out"
The URL I've used forever is: https://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=journal&source=autorefresh&n...
I'm stumped. Does this sound familiar to anyone in CentOS land?
--Doc Savage Fairview Heights, IL
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 06:55:04PM -0600, dsavage@peaknet.net wrote:
I don't know if this is a CentOS7/Firefox problem or one with the distant web site slashdot.org. I can connect to it just fine with the latest Firefox on my Windows 10 desktop PC, but not with Firefox 52.6.0 on this CentOS 7.4 laptop. This has been an on-going problem for several weeks.
I get to slashdot.org, but I get a page where the most recent posting is from Thursday.
Date: Saturday, March 03, 2018 20:54:56 -0500 From: Fred Smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
On Sat, Mar 03, 2018 at 06:55:04PM -0600, dsavage@peaknet.net wrote:
I don't know if this is a CentOS7/Firefox problem or one with the distant web site slashdot.org. I can connect to it just fine with the latest Firefox on my Windows 10 desktop PC, but not with Firefox 52.6.0 on this CentOS 7.4 laptop. This has been an on-going problem for several weeks.
I get to slashdot.org, but I get a page where the most recent posting is from Thursday.
Most pages I try to go to return the following:
503 - Service Offline Slashdot is presently in offline mode. Only the front page and story pages linked from the front page are available in this mode. Please try again later.
whether using Chrome or FF 52.6.0 or the current beta 59.0b14.
On Sun, Mar 04, 2018 at 02:04:07AM +0000, Richard wrote:
503 - Service Offline Slashdot is presently in offline mode. Only the front page and story pages linked from the front page are available in this mode. Please try again later.
whether using Chrome or FF 52.6.0 or the current beta 59.0b14.
I believe I saw somewhere that slashdot is having issues at present.
Ah, googling slashdot having issues brings me this.
We've been having site performance/uptime issues including a DDOS earlier in the week (Slashdotted?). DevOps working round the clock until we're back at full capacity. No ETA but hopeful for sometime Saturday. Rumors of our demise are greatly exaggerated. Thanks for your patience
that was from their twitter page.
https://twitter.com/slashdot?lang=e
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