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Subject: 
Re: slow server startup
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
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.

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 (...) (23 years ago, 17-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.general)

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