[IP] more on MediaPost: CDT calls for Net Neutrality protections

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Seth Finkelstein <sethf@sethf.com>
Date: June 22, 2006 12:25:22 PM EDT
To: David Farber <dave@farber.net>
Cc: ip@v2.listbox.com, Sean Donelan <sean@DONELAN.COM>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on MediaPost: CDT calls for Net Neutrality  
protections

> From: Sean Donelan <sean@DONELAN.COM>
> If you do a little research you'll find it is a software bug between
> Craigslist method of opening a TCP/IP session (probably a flaky
> load balancer which sends an initial TCP packet with a window size
> of zero == buffer full, slow down) and Authentium's firewall software.

	Yes:

http://www.authentium.com/support/craigslist.asp

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/ 
wpn-60-20060608AuthentiumRespondsToCraigslistFlap.html

"The network packets coming from the Craigslist.org web site were
unusual in that they contained a zero-length TCP window that usually
indicates a server is too busy to handle more data. The Authentium
firewall driver responded by sending data only one byte at a
time. This slowed down the web request and made the Craigslist.org web
page load very slowly or not at all."

http://lippard.blogspot.com/2006/06/update-on-cox-blocking-of- 
craigslist.html

http://bennett.com/blog/index.php/archives/2006/06/17/know-nothing- 
claims-about-site-blocking/

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