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Re: slow server startup
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:31:13 GMT
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"Daniel Crichton" <danielc@helio.co.uk> wrote in message
news:GuqF5w.AoC@lugnet.com...
> "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message
> news:20020417201416.GS6127@peeron.com...
> > imagine this:
> >
> > - you try to connect to nntp
> > - the server sends an auth to you
> > - some computer on the way (your ISP, their backbone, someone) is
> > dropping the auth request
> > - you don't see any auth
> > - the server waits 90 seconds before timeing out on the auth
> > - nntp communication begins
> >
> > that's one way of explaining things... and at this point, it fits all
> > the facts I have.
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> That sounds feasible, except for one thing - I run Outpost on my PC which
> logs all allowed and denied connections in and out, and I don't see any • auth
> requests being logged. I also have auth incoming disabled in the settings,
> so if your assumption were true I should also get a delayed connection -
> I've just connected from a fresh boot after my PC being off for about 12
> hours, and it took about 3 seconds for the connection to be established • and
> another 3-5 seconds to get all the new headers for admin.general. I'm on
> ADSL which would account for the speed of getting the headers, but the • auth
> delay of around 30-60 seconds is normally down to the TCP standard timeout
> of 30 seconds plus packet round trip times, and I'm definitely not seeing
> that here.
>
> If you're seeing auth's in your firewall log that suggests that your news
> access is being proxied by something in the middle - could your ISP be
> running a "transparent" NNTP proxy on their network? Then again I guess • the
> same could be said of mine, where my ISP could be running a "transparent"
> proxy and handling the auths for me without my PC ever seeing them. Only
> someone with access to packets at both your end and the server, or my end
> and the server, would be able to answer that.
I agree.
I don't have any ISP (I mean I *am* the ISP) and so I can safely exclude the
second option.
This leave space only for a (weird) proxy or filter on the Pair Network
side.
--
Cheers
Carlo
LUGNET #24
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| "Dan Boger" <dan@peeron.com> wrote in message news:20020417201416....ron.com... (...) wrapped (...) (port (...) That sounds feasible, except for one thing - I run Outpost on my PC which logs all allowed and denied connections in and out, and I don't (...) (24 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.general)
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