I have a problem with some sites on the Web that do not adhere to the Path Maximum Transmission Unit Discovery (PMTUD) protocol as defined by the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
I work at sea and all traffic is encrypted which means the extra overhead needed to encapsulate the date prior to transmission requires our server requesting a smaller packet from websites and some just don’t respond to the request. For example, I can get to my Yahoo start page, but when the site tries to access my e-mail (which apparently requires further encryption) it just times out and dies. Some financial sites also time out and there seems little that we can do from our end as the security concern is higher than our personal need to pay our bills, etc.
I’m not sure if this question should go in this forum, but it seemed closest. Do we need to contact each site that times out and ask them to implement the protocol as defined by the IETF? Can they be required to in any way or are we just left hanging?
