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Intermittently over the last 24 hours, and now all the time, I cannot
access any content served from any slashdot.org subdomain e.g.
yro.slashdot.org, it.slashdot.org. If I follow any links from the
slashdot.org home page to the topic discussion hosted under a subdomain, I
get 'Page Load Error', 'Connection Interrupted' in Firefox.

Curl shows me:
* About to connect() to it.slashdot.org port 80 (#0)
* Trying 216.34.181.48... connected
* Connected to it.slashdot.org (216.34.181.48) port 80 (#0)
> HEAD
/story/09/05/28/2313230/Homeland-Security-To-Scan-Citizens-Exiting-US
HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.19.4 (x86_64-mandriva-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.4
GnuTLS/2.6.4 zlib/1.2.3 c-ares/1.6.0 libidn/1.13 libssh2/1.0
> Host: it.slashdot.org
> Accept: */*
>
* Closing connection #0
* Failure when receiving data from the peer

If I remove the subdomain from the URL, the connection works and I get the
appropriate content. For me, the main slashdot.org domain resolves to:
216.34.181.45 and all the subdomains resolve to: 216.34.181.48

It looks like the load balancer on .48 is stuffed:

$ telnet 216.34.181.48 80
Trying 216.34.181.48...
Connected to star.slashdot.org (216.34.181.48).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /story/09/05/28/2313230/Homeland-Security-To-Scan-Citizens-Exiting-US
HTTP/1.1
Host: yro.slashdot.org

Connection closed by foreign host.

Please rectify!