Paulo da Silva wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am getting a very strange behaviour of my network.
>
> I am installing a new gentoo on a laptop with k 2.6.8.1.
>
> The laptop is connected to a ADSL modem/router. So is my
> desktop. Both systems comunicate normaly: rsync, ssh, etc ...
>
> "ping" works fine for any site. So does traceroute.
>
> When I try to use wget or ftp it remains stopped after issuing
> the "conected" message.
> For example trying to get the homepage of my ISP:
> # wget www.esoterica.pt
> --00:05:44-- http://www.esoterica.pt/
> => `index.html'
> Resolving www.esoterica.pt... 195.22.31.35
> Connecting to www.esoterica.pt[195.22.31.35]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
>
> It stops forever here!!!
> If I reboot the old system (k 2.4) this works fine. So does if
> I issue the command on the desktop!
>
> I found an exception to this behavior. www.cnn.com works fine!
>
> # wget www.cnn.com
> --00:10:12-- http://www.cnn.com/
> => `index.html'
> Resolving www.cnn.com... 64.236.16.52, 64.236.16.84, 64.236.16.116, ...
> Connecting to www.cnn.com[64.236.16.52]:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: unspecified [text/html]
>
> [ <=> ] 60,725 22.24K/s
>
> 00:10:19 (22.19 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [60725]
>
> What is different is this site?!
>
> I discovered this problem because I was unable to fetch any
> file when using "emerge -f".
>
> Thank you for any help.

See the article at:

http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/

I am going to proceed with the instalation ... :-)