[dba-Tech] Stubborn portal

Gustav,

It ran fine from Canada.

Arthur

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Gustav Brock <Gustav at cactus.dk> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I need some serious help.
> This site which is the official main portal of the authorities in Denmark
> opens fine at some workstations while some refuse to, well actually seems
> to block it:
>
> http://www.virk.dk
>
> I have of course tried all the usual down to reinstalling IE but the issue
> spans across OSs (WinXP, Win7 32 and 64) as well as browsers, IE and
> Chrome. Also tried to disable antivirus and firewall. Checked DNS (this is
> a standard AD setup). No change.
>
> Thus I made a packet capture with Wireshark on of the offending
> workstations. Seems like the portal is returning invalid HTTP packets ...
> However, I'm not a packet expert, so if someone could have a look and tell
> what is going on, I can mail the pcap file off-line.
>
> /gustav
>
>
> Only two businesses refer to their clientele as users: drug dealers and
> software developers.
>
> -- Arthur Fuller
>