Messages in this thread | | | From | (Mike "Ford" Ditto) | Date | Sun, 31 May 98 14:32:29 -0700 | Subject | Re: 2.1.103 won't connect to ftp.kernel.org |
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[ on a slow (4 second roundtrip time) link... ] > Final ack for three-way handshake -> connection established. [ ... ] > Now it starts to be come strange. The other end floods us with ACKs.
Just a wild theory: Could the server be running an agressive defense against SYN flood attacks, causing it to drop the half-open connection during the 4 seconds roundtrip time it takes for the final ack to get there? -=] Ford [=-
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