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From: "Glen Barber" <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: how to break portsnap
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Steve Franks <stevefranks@ieee.org> wrote:
> I've googled high & low but I cannot find much other that "this cannot
> happen" replies.  I've got a dual boot to amd64 and i386.  The amd64
> hasn't been able to portsnap fetch or cron since march.  The i386 I
> just installed, and it portsnap's fine, so it's not a firewall or
> related issue.  I've checked my key and it looks ok.  What am I
> missing?


I've had this problem before, and it turns out it was a bad CPU in my
case.  I would imagine bad RAM would play a part in this as well.

You may want to try to run Memtest.

Regards,
-- 
Glen Barber