Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Wed, 15 May 1996 11:19:09 +0200 | Subject | Re: Networking Status pre #2 |
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On 15 May 96 at 0:56, ulmo@q.net wrote:
> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes: [...] > > > 6. Not being able to talk to some sites and a trace that looks like > > a MTU discovery problem (continually resending a frame with DF set > > and getting an ICMP error back). > > Hmm .... perhaps. > > There are certain hosts I cannot talk to after a "TCP Connection > Established" (ftp sites, etc.) that other hosts can talk to no > problem; I haven't diagnosed what's going on but have eliminated most > identd and reverse-forward-lookup matching problems (my reverse lookups > should be fairly sturdy!) [...] I think that one is not a kernel problem. Usually inetd starts up ftpd after the connection is established. On very busy servers it can take a significant amount of time (minutes) until the ftpd is ready and responding. I've seen this when I tried to FTP at the wrong time...
Ulrich
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