Re: Proxy problem: imap-login: Error: proxy(USERNAME): connect(10.x.x.178, 993) failed: Cannot assign requested address (after 0 secs, local=10.x.x.104)
* Ralf Hildebrandt r...@sys4.de: I'd guess you're running out of TCP ports. I think so too, but it's somewhat unlikely! We're using 10 outbound IP adresses! In a random fashion (and I'm seeing this on the backend server!) FYI: It was a kernel bug. -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
Re: Proxy problem: imap-login: Error: proxy(USERNAME): connect(10.x.x.178, 993) failed: Cannot assign requested address (after 0 secs, local=10.x.x.104)
Zitat von Ralf Hildebrandt r...@sys4.de: * Ralf Hildebrandt r...@sys4.de: I'd guess you're running out of TCP ports. I think so too, but it's somewhat unlikely! We're using 10 outbound IP adresses! In a random fashion (and I'm seeing this on the backend server!) FYI: It was a kernel bug. Do you mind sharing the actual technical background. Which kernel was affected and how? Thanks Andreas smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: Proxy problem: imap-login: Error: proxy(USERNAME): connect(10.x.x.178, 993) failed: Cannot assign requested address (after 0 secs, local=10.x.x.104)
FYI: It was a kernel bug. Do you mind sharing the actual technical background. Which kernel was affected and how? We didn't track it down to a specific bug, but we finally decided that our setup using multiple IPs for source and destination was OK and should work as intended - but it didn't. So we switched from Debians 3.2 kernel to a 3.14 from backports and - surprise - it worked as designed. Something in the 3.2 kernel limited the number of established connections to the frame given by the local port range, even incoming ones. I still don't know what, but I am quite sure it's not a new feature in 3.14 which makes our setup work, as it should be possible to have many connects from different source IPs on basically every linux kernel. There are other limits (as some TCP hashtable sizes) which can be tuned, but that was not the limit we were hitting... Old (not working): linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 3.2.63-2 New (working OK): linux-image-3.14-0.bpo.2-rt-amd64 3.14.15-2~bpo70+1 -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
Re: Proxy problem: imap-login: Error: proxy(USERNAME): connect(10.x.x.178, 993) failed: Cannot assign requested address (after 0 secs, local=10.x.x.104)
Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: [...] We already optimized: snip net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=5 # down from 30s net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1 net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=1 # http://redis4you.com/articles.php?id=012name=Redis+high+traffic+connection+issue just a note on enabling tcp_tw_recycle, it is known to have side-effects and issues when you have lots of connections from the same source IP, such as many clients behind same NAT IP or a reverse proxy see http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2014-tcp-time-wait-state-linux.html -brd
Re: Proxy problem: imap-login: Error: proxy(USERNAME): connect(10.x.x.178, 993) failed: Cannot assign requested address (after 0 secs, local=10.x.x.104)
* brd barra...@tiscali.it: Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: [...] We already optimized: snip net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=5 # down from 30s net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1 net.ipv4.tcp_tw_recycle=1 # http://redis4you.com/articles.php?id=012name=Redis+high+traffic+connection+issue just a note on enabling tcp_tw_recycle, it is known to have side-effects and issues when you have lots of connections from the same source IP, such as many clients behind same NAT IP or a reverse proxy see http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2014-tcp-time-wait-state-linux.html Yes, we might want to disable that again. -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
Re: Proxy problem: imap-login: Error: proxy(USERNAME): connect(10.x.x.178, 993) failed: Cannot assign requested address (after 0 secs, local=10.x.x.104)
in the logs. We already tried raising the ulimit, the max number of open files. Once we reach about 25k connections, we're getting the error above... for all local addresses. It seems as if the system cannot create any more outgoing connections. I'd guess you're running out of TCP ports. I think so too, but it's somewhat unlikely! We're using 10 outbound IP adresses! In a random fashion (and I'm seeing this on the backend server!) We're using multiple local addresses when proxying to the backends How are you doing the multiple local addresses? In v2.2.14 there's login_source_ips setting intended to solve this problem. Exactly like that! http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy -- [*] sys4 AG http://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 Franziskanerstraße 15, 81669 München Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein
Re: Proxy problem: imap-login: Error: proxy(USERNAME): connect(10.x.x.178, 993) failed: Cannot assign requested address (after 0 secs, local=10.x.x.104)
On 16 Oct 2014, at 06:26, Ralf Hildebrandt r...@sys4.de wrote: After fixing the duplicate compression problem, we're now encountering imap-login: Error: proxy(USERNAME): connect(10.x.x.178, 993) failed: Cannot assign requested address (after 0 secs, local=10.x.x.100) in the logs. We already tried raising the ulimit, the max number of open files. Once we reach about 25k connections, we're getting the error above... for all local addresses. It seems as if the system cannot create any more outgoing connections. I'd guess you're running out of TCP ports. We're using multiple local addresses when proxying to the backends How are you doing the multiple local addresses? In v2.2.14 there's login_source_ips setting intended to solve this problem. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/PasswordDatabase/ExtraFields/Proxy
