From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 13 20:12:10 2006 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 26D2F16A420 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:12:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbell@stelesys.com) Received: from stelesys.com (web3.stelesys.com [63.175.100.43]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C4643D46 for ; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:12:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbell@stelesys.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=www.stelesys.com) by stelesys.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1F8k3J-0004jp-DO; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:12:05 -0500 Received: from 209.134.164.18 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jbell@stelesys.com) by www.stelesys.com with HTTP; Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:12:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4026.209.134.164.18.1139861525.squirrel@www.stelesys.com> In-Reply-To: <9CB4E9E3-EE93-4E65-AD74-0ACC9B3C64FF@mac.com> References: <1716.209.134.164.18.1139835495.squirrel@www.stelesys.com> <9CB4E9E3-EE93-4E65-AD74-0ACC9B3C64FF@mac.com> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:12:05 -0500 (EST) From: "Jerry Bell" To: "Charles Swiger" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.6-rc1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jerry Bell Subject: Re: Help with strange web server problem 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: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:12:10 -0000 I didn't want to spam the link out, but it's www.musiclodge.com. I will gather the capture data from working and non working sessions and send it out. Thanks! > On Feb 13, 2006, at 7:58 AM, Jerry Bell wrote: >> It's hit or miss, but the first time someone visits the web site, >> they get >> a "server not found" page. On hitting refresh, they get the page - no >> problems. If I wait a while and try again, I get the same problem. > > Path MTU problem? > >> The problem appears to be something in the initial communication >> with the >> web server. Using tcpdump, I can see that the PC connects to the web >> server and sends the GET request, but the server closes the connection >> abruptly. Comparing that flow to a normal session, I see that >> there are >> some extra packets between the initial SYN and the sending of the GET >> phrase that do not exist during a successful session. > > The details would help. :-) Or you could tell us what the server is > so we could try hitting it ourselves... > > -- > -Chuck > >