Messages in this thread | | | Date | 20 Feb 2000 10:29:00 +0200 | From | (Kai Henningsen) | Subject | Re: TCP bug? hanging outgoing connections in 2.2.14 |
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jeremy@goop.org (Jeremy Fitzhardinge) wrote on 18.02.00 in <XFMail.000218142530.jeremy@goop.org>:
> On 18-Feb-00 kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru wrote: > > Hello! > > > >> stuff. Think cell-phones that can do POP3. Maybe not today, but never > >> dismiss the lure of the internet and the stupidity of devices ;) > > > > Actually, our TCP does not ingore them. It should work with such winodws. > > And 4096 is even not small, it good large window 8) > > > > I think target SMTP server simply does not want to talk to us > > by an unrelated reason. > > Yes. It turned out to be trying to query my non-existant ident server, and > then ignoring the ICMP message my firewall rules sent it. It just sat there
Seriously broken.
> in a staring match with my mail server until my end timed out. An unrelated > but confusing effect is that the other end only accepts one connection from > each source IP address, so when I telnetted to the other end it dropped the > first connection.
IMAO, also broken.
> Fix: install a no-op ident server.
And revise your original idea that the comp-risks home couldn't be strange. It is. (Probably report this for the next digest?)
MfG Kai
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