Hi Amos, I appreciate you looking into this; thanks very much. Trying to refresh the cache by using Ctrl+Reload or Shift+Ctrl+Reload or Ctrl+F5 in Windows do not work. On 4 February 2010 00:47, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It's one pile of horse amongst several. Any of which might be real hay. > > I'm more inclined to think some intermediary is having persistent TCP > connection problems. Caching the content will at worst result in old dead > content being served back to the clients. But still served back. > Restarting the server indicates some active connection is hung. Could you suggest a way to diagnose persistent TCP connection problems or suggest a forum where I might be able to table the question? I wouldn't mind marching around to the ISP offices and throwing a tantrum, but I'd prefer to be reasonably sure of my facts before I did so. ~ Dave Coventry