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Tim,
I think it would be a Good Thing to make this a news item on the ldraw.org
homepage.
And then park it permanently on ldraw.org somewhere (like in an ldraw.org
FAQ). It won't help people at the time they're having the problem, but
they'll be able to research later (or sooner).
Steve
In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> Several people have in the last year reported problems with
> getting access to www.ldraw.org. The reason for this
> problem appears to be that the default "time-to-live" (TTL)
> for TCP packets is too low.
>
> I have now recieved confirmation that this is very likely
> to be the case - at least for people using Windows 95, 98
> or ME. On these systems the default TTL is set to 32 hops
> instead of 64 (as suggested in a RFC from 1992).
>
> According to the Danish research network operators this can
> be fixed using a program called "regedit.exe". You should
> look for "DefaultTTL" under
> "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\MSTCP".
>
> There should be more information at:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q158/4/74.ASP
>
> Play well,
>
> Jacob
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