From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Aug 6 08:13:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA23969 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:13:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.multinet.net (helix.multinet.net [204.138.173.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA23959 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:13:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from help.multinet.net (help.multinet.net [204.191.112.5]) by mail.multinet.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id PAA20684 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 1996 15:07:52 GMT Message-Id: <199608061507.PAA20684@mail.multinet.net> X-Sender: admin@multinet.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 09:18:11 -0400 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: admin@mail.multinet.net (graydon hoare) Subject: strangest error I've ever seen Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hey ISP champs -- here's one I'm totally lost on. I've got a user dialing into a netblazer, which runs through a router (which does packet filtering) into (a) the internet and (b) the LAN housing the machine which serves their web pages. When they connect to any site in the entire world, including our other BSD machines on the same LAN, they get everything served up tasty and fast. When they connect to the bsd machine that has their web pages, it takes about 2-5 minutes to serve a single page, and about 2 minutes to give a login prompt if they telnet or FTP. This machine is doing nothing else right now. 100% idle. When I connect to it locally, everything is instant. When I telnet to the netblazer they're coming in through, and then open an FTP from the netblazer's internal client to the host, it's instant. Every other site works fine for them, they insist that their machine is configured fine and can access every other machine on our LAN... and they actually DO get packets from the screwy host, just several minutes behind schedule. Has anyone ever seen a problem even remotely like this before? It's not a congestion problem, and the firewall is letting everything through without complaint... tha machine in question runs freeBSD 2.1.5 with wu_ftpd-academ 2.4 beta 9 & tcp wrapper. any suggestions? They keep calling me and snidely implying that I haven't bought a fast enough server. -GRRRR-- Thanks -graydon