From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 17:08:45 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C20216A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 17:08:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@maxify.com) Received: from vertigo.maxify.com (ns.maxify.com [216.218.213.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1C46443D53 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 17:08:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@maxify.com) Received: (qmail 47262 invoked from network); 24 May 2005 17:17:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?66.92.188.147?) (66.92.188.147) by ns.maxify.com with SMTP; 24 May 2005 17:17:11 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v728) In-Reply-To: <4292476B.80506@mWare.ca> References: <62547055-57AF-4695-9EB7-CA7CB4BB4232@maxify.com> <4292476B.80506@mWare.ca> Message-Id: <973D8ECA-069C-4B95-953D-68F1EA2B2842@maxify.com> From: Scott Stevenson Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 10:07:28 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.728) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Some HTTP clients only receive first 4k X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:08:45 -0000 On May 23, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Mykel wrote: >> 1. Affected clients consistently receive only the first 4096 >> bytes of .html and .css files. After that, they encounter a >> single garbage character (looks like a memory stomp), and then >> nothing. >> >> 2. At least two of the sites hosted on the machine are affected. >> >> 3. The issue can be reproduced via the W3 validator: [...] >> >> 4. At least in the case of the validator, the requests don't show >> up in Apache's access or error logs! This is consistently >> reproducible. >> >> 5. For some reason, clients consistently only get to byte 3883 >> (or perhaps 3884) in .php files, and then get the garbage character. > > Perhaps there's an MTU problem along the way? Can you ping/ > traceroute all the way between endpoints? Some people idiotically > block all ICMP, when they probably just want to filter ICMP ECHO... > (idijjits... ping ain't the biggest of your problems) I can't see how this would explain: 1. No entry in the access log for the initial request 2. PHP files being truncated at a different length (3883/3884 bytes) than HTML and CSS (4096) Also, I never saw this problem when a linux machine was running on the same network with the same IP. Or am I missing something? Thanks, - Scott