On Wed, 17 May 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > the same. I have experienced this before on other sites (hotmail.com is
> > one I remember.)
> >
> > /peter (with a correct reply address now 8) )
> >
> Just a shot in the dark - how is your firewall handling ident requests?
> Are you accepting them on the firewall? If so, what may be happening is
> that the web site is asking the firewall who is connecting. If you are
> connecting from the firewall, it returns a valid reply, but with the
> standard ident, if you are connecting through the fire wall, it will
> return a message that says the process making the connection doesn't
> exist, or no user owns the process making the connection. If you reject
> the ident connections, you don't usualy have a problem. (don't use deny,
> unless you want a delay while the connection times out.)
Well, I've _never_ heard of a webserver placing ident requests before
sending, but it's something I thought of. The problem is: I've sat
listening with a big fat tcpdump of everything going over the link. Guess
what? Nothing comes in from that address. Nor anything in that subclass.
So I'm stumped. Nobody having this sort of trouble? This is
2.2.15/raid1/nfsv3 and not much fancier, connected through a dedicated ppp
link. Wonder if it's the ip_always_defrag which was changed rather
recently..
Cheers,
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