On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Kathy Quinlan wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Jinx, Microsoft are about to release a new Keyboard that has an "Any Key" on
> it so that they will stop help desk calls complaining that users can not
> find the "AnyKey"
>
> Colin, I have the same problem, with the internet job search site, you get
> halfway through the options and it says DNS error server not found, and it
> is like it was there a minute ago as all the data is on the one server sigh

If it's a secure (SSL) site, I bet I know why.  It's probably a "Server
not found or DNS error", which results because Internet Exploder's support
for persistent connections with SSL is badly broken.  The web server needs
to turn off persistence when it sees IE being used -- trivial in Apache,
but most people don't get it right.  The symptom is that you will get that
error seemingly at random (it's actually timing dependent, we've done a
LOT of research on this at work).

Dale

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