Linux Forums unreachable.

[Tom H]

>>> While not exactly helping to find the culprit, it might nevertheless be
>>> interesting to see if the problem is specific to port 80. I. e. if you
>>> telnet to a different port (21, 53, 443, 8443 for example seem to be
>>> open on linuxforums.org) will a connection be established?

>> Great summary and suggestions - although I doubt that it has other
>> ports open.

> It has - I checked before posting that the above mentioned TCP ports are
> indeed accepting connections on the server. And you confirm this for 443:

>> It is not configured for https for example (it just has a
>> RHEL default apache page at that port).
>
> ...which means that the site *is* configured for HTTPS.

What I meant to say was that 443 what not particularly useful because
there is nothing being served there. So it is a request for extra work
from Ray (like my wget request) without a real move to a resolution.