Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:28:38 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: strange TCP issue on RELENG_7 Message-ID: <200809031328.m83DSkfE058566@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <7.1.0.9.0.20080822120541.1122fba0@sentex.net> References: <7.1.0.9.0.20080822120541.1122fba0@sentex.net>
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At 01:19 PM 8/22/2008, Mike Tancsa wrote: >On one of our sendmail boxes that we are running RELENG_7, we have >noticed an odd issue triggered or noticed by our monitoring system >(bigbrother in this case). The seems to have been happening ever >since we installed it, so its not a recent commit issue. Just following up, I am still seeing this issue on a recent stable from sept 2. (a sendmail box periodically sending an RST after successful 3way handshake) Monitoring host - 199.212.134.2, smtp host 199.212.134.9 From the sendmail host I see 08:19:32.780772 IP 199.212.134.2.64679 > 199.212.134.9.25: S 3568082086:3568082086(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,nop,wscale 3,sackOK,timestamp 1692532073 0> 08:19:32.780793 IP 199.212.134.9.25 > 199.212.134.2.64679: S 901330786:901330786(0) ack 3568082087 win 65535 <mss 1460,nop,wscale 3,sackOK,timestamp 1026686506 1692532073> 08:19:32.781325 IP 199.212.134.2.64679 > 199.212.134.9.25: . ack 1 win 8326 <nop,nop,timestamp 1692532074 1026686506> 08:19:32.781332 IP 199.212.134.9.25 > 199.212.134.2.64679: R 901330787:901330787(0) win 0 08:19:32.781334 IP 199.212.134.2.64679 > 199.212.134.9.25: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 8326 <nop,nop,timestamp 1692532074 1026686506> 08:19:32.781341 IP 199.212.134.9.25 > 199.212.134.2.64679: R 901330787:901330787(0) win 0 From the monitoring host 08:19:32.777919 IP 199.212.134.2.64679 > 199.212.134.9.25: S 3568082086:3568082086(0) win 65535 <mss 1460,nop,wscale 3,sackOK,timestamp 1692532073 0> 08:19:32.778448 IP 199.212.134.9.25 > 199.212.134.2.64679: S 901330786:901330786(0) ack 3568082087 win 65535 <mss 1460,nop,wscale 3,sackOK,timestamp 1026686506 1692532073> 08:19:32.778470 IP 199.212.134.2.64679 > 199.212.134.9.25: . ack 1 win 8326 <nop,nop,timestamp 1692532074 1026686506> 08:19:32.778479 IP 199.212.134.2.64679 > 199.212.134.9.25: P 1:7(6) ack 1 win 8326 <nop,nop,timestamp 1692532074 1026686506> 08:19:32.778942 IP 199.212.134.9.25 > 199.212.134.2.64679: R 901330787:901330787(0) win 0 08:19:32.778951 IP 199.212.134.9.25 > 199.212.134.2.64679: R 901330787:901330787(0) win 0 There is no record of the connection in sendmail itself either and I have the LogLevel set to 11. On a normal connection from the monitoring host, I would see something like Sep 3 08:59:32 smtp2 sm-mta[14042]: NOQUEUE: connect from ns2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.2] Sep 3 08:59:32 smtp2 sm-mta[14042]: m83CxWHh014042: Milter (milter-ahead): init success to negotiate Sep 3 08:59:32 smtp2 sm-mta[14042]: m83CxWHh014042: Milter (clamav): init success to negotiate Sep 3 08:59:32 smtp2 sm-mta[14042]: m83CxWHh014042: Milter: connect to filters Sep 3 08:59:32 smtp2 sm-mta[14042]: m83CxWHh014042: ns2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.2] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA I tried running without pf (or any firewall) as well as disabling syncache but the problem would still happen (again, once or twice a day, sometimes once every 2 days). Does anyone have any other suggestions as to how to track down this issue ? I am a bit reluctant to move my other sendmail severs to RELENG_7 if the monitoring system is going to be tripping false positives like this. I am just running tcpdump on the main interface now to get a sense of how many times this is happening with connections in general and comparing it to the RELENG_6 boxes. ---Mike
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