Re: Mail and Telnet time out specially under Linux
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 03:10:07 +0100, Antony Gelberg
<antony@antgel.co.uk> wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 12:16:33AM +0100, Ulrich Sucker wrote:
>> Hi folks!
>>
>> During debugging a mail problem, I found a very interesting problem.
>> My mail server says "connection timed out" if he tries to connect to
>> some specific systems which are properly run under windows.
>> I tried to connect the system via telnet and telnet timed out also.
>> Then I tried some other machines (DOS, Windows, OpenBSD, SUN) and I
>> found only Linux machines with such kind of problems, but not all
>> Linux machines have this problem.
>> The problem depends not to the kernel version (we tried 2.2.xx, 2.4.18
>> - 24).
>>
>> I have problems with these machines:
>>
>> 213.160.64.50
>> 149.201.40.50
>> 212.223.86.31
>>
>> Has anybody an idea?
>>
>> Regards Uli
>
>I've got an idea but don't know if it's any use at all. Perhaps ECN is
>turned on on your problem boxes? Have a look at
>http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s14-2 and if you are really interested,
Thanks! I found the ECN, but it wasn't the solution.
>ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3168.txt.
I will have a look at it.
>
>A
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