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TCP vs UDP Error-Checking

I've bounced upon two articles that describe in-depth on how TCP and UDP connections work. However there is some kind of inconsistency. Where one article tells me that UDP does no Error-Checking at ...
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0answers
45 views

TCP 443 Connection goes into server but never reaches Apache2 (Passenger)

We have some weird problems, when external servers try to connect to our Website on Port 443(TCP) which is an Apache2+Passenger and a Rails Application. The problem only happens rarely. I started to ...
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1answer
389 views

Windows server closes TCP connection immediately after sending SYN+ACK

After a proper SYN, SYN+ACK and ACK TCP-Handshake, the server immediately sends a FIN+ACK indicating a graceful connection closure. The client's HTTP requests results in RST packets from server. This ...
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what can put linux process managing connection pool into bad state, so it restarts them continously?

I have an application with pool of connections to MySQL. At some point, in production, every 1-3 seconds some socket is closed. As a result my app restarts this connection. This is pretty big pool ...
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2answers
791 views

Increasing of max (more than 10) TCP Connections

I have the following problem on one of my servers: On other servers max TCP Connections is dynamical and much more higher than 10. How to increase max TCP Connections in this server in Windows ...
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2answers
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You are given a Computer, which is “somehow connected to the web”. How do you find out how? [closed]

The way to accomplish this obviously depends on the operating system. Windows 7 Mac OS X Mountain Lion Ubuntu 12.4 Choose one of the above (preferably all 3), and explain how: You would find out ...
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2answers
732 views

TCP connection stuck in SYN_RECV state despite ACK received, Linux 2.6.18, embedded, ARM

My client cannot connect to my protocol port (TCP) after some network glitches, even though all other protocols (telnet/HTTP/FTP) work fine. netstat shows that my server is listening and tcpdump on ...
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1answer
478 views

Connecting To FMS Server Issues

I am trying to get my computer to connect to an Adobe Connect server but I have had no luck. The error that Adobe is telling me is "ERROR: FMS Server did not return correctly!" and have done some ...
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1answer
2k views

TCP connection reset in linux(strange packet loss) but not on windows

It is all good on windows, but on linux when I try to retrieve a specific web page, I get a long wait and then a "connection reset by peer" Pinging destination IP works fine. I tried to reduce ...
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1answer
524 views

Unclosed TCP connections in CLOSE_WAIT for various processes

I have cluster of several machines connected on 10GBE network (NICs are Intel 82599EB 10GBE SFI/SFP+) running under Debian 6.0 and faced with problem of hung up TCP connections in CLOSE_WAIT state. I ...
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1answer
365 views

netstat reports ESTABLISHED connection even after I've pulled the cord

I'm experimenting with lost connections between my java application and my mysql server. The application and the server are on two different machines and I'm pulling the physical cord between the ...
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2answers
292 views

Clients can make maximum only 15 connections to ubuntu custom server

I have a custom server in C# being run on Ubuntu 9 under mono. I can make up to 15 silverlight clients connect to the server. When I make the 16th, it just waits. And if I close one of the established ...
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2answers
139 views

TCP what's the purpose of the third step of 3-way-handshake [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why is it 3-way-handshake and not more? Example: If a client wants to talk to a server, it just tells the server that it wants to establish a connection, then the server ...
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1answer
109 views

Is a retransmitted SYN *EXACTLY* the same as the original?

If I have a client trying to connect to a TCP server, and the client sends a couple of retransmits trying to establish a connection, is there ANY difference in the SYNs it will send? If the server ...
2
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1answer
1k views

apache webserver unresponsible with server-status showing all child processes waiting for connection

My setup: i have 3 nearly identical webserver machines serving the same high loaded dynamic website with simple load balancing over dns. The service has been working for over two ears with the same ...
2
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1answer
488 views

Finding short-lived TCP connections owner process

Running tcpdump on local connections to an apache server, I found TCP connections being established and closed immediately every 2 seconds. How do I find which process is responsible for these? ...
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6answers
400 views

Effect of distance from server on page load speed

I measured the load speed of a static image file severed by nginx from my server (using pingdom service). The server should normally process this request within few seconds. My server is located in ...
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2answers
221 views

SSH occasionally (rarely) doesn't connect

I've been running this script for a few days: while [ true ]; do ssh USER@SERVER echo -n . || date +"%s"; done Obviously, my terminal is filled with dots, but sometimes (quite rarely) I get this ...
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1answer
355 views

What is responsible for Connect/Send/Wait in a HTTP request?

Services like pingdom and Google speed analyze the time consumed for reading a HTTP file. This includes DNS: Obviously, DNS management to interpret the namespaces is responsible. Connect: ??? Send: ...
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1answer
463 views

IPtables rate-limit, What are the differences between modules? Recent, Limit

I am doing some rate-limiting with IPtables, and i'm not sure if I should use "Recent" or "Limit" What are the differences between the two? If they both achieve the same result, which one has ...
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1answer
2k views

tcptrack shows SYN_SENT connections, does that mean the SYN package reached the server?

our server suffered a serious connection timeout problem, so we track tcp connection with tcptrack we found out that, if the client started to connect to the server, tcptrack shows the connection, ...
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1answer
261 views

Windows Server 2008 not accepting connections to Server Programs

A company which our agency works for got a Windows Server 2008. I've had the job to install an FTP-Server (FileZilla Server) on this Windows Server 2008. Now my problem is that the server does not ...
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4answers
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Windows Server 2008 R2/IIS 7 refuses all outside tcp connections

I am unable to connect, for example, via http to a brand new installation of 64-bit Windows Server 2008. The server is on a domain, but is not DC (that's another problem altogether). The IIS7 is ...
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1answer
205 views

tcp connection refused

I am getting following error when running a program 2011/07/06 18:21:08 stat http error: dial tcp localhost:3179: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:3179: connection refused 2011/07/06 18:21:08 Error putting file: ...
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1answer
194 views

Is there any restriction of new incoming/outgoing TCP connections/seconds in Windows?

Is there any restriction of number of new incoming/outgoing TCP connections/seconds in Windows? If so, are there any differences between Windows versions?
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1answer
88 views

Can a TIME_WAIT connection be restored?

Is it possible to restore a connection that is in state TIME_WAIT? If not, I use raw packets (forgering the source), is it possible? (Please understand that I do not intend to do bad things, it's ...
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1answer
250 views

How to route all outgoing TCP connections using HTTP CONNECT on Linux

I have a Linux system which is behind a firewall, but it can connect to a HTTP proxy which passes all CONNECT commands through. How can I configure the Linux system to make DNS requests over TCP over ...
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1answer
1k views

Windows TcpNumConnections registry key

I hope this question isn't out of place here, but can anyone explain to me what the 'TcpNumConnections' registry key does? The description has me confused; I'm not sure what Microsoft means by ...
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3answers
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Can I make TCP/IP session to run less than 60 seconds?

Our server is overloaded with TCP/IP sessions, we have 1200 - 1500 of them. Most of them are hanging in TIME_OUT state. It turns out that a connection in TIME_OUT state occupies a socket until 60 ...
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6answers
582 views

What causes a delay of 100 ms in initiating an HTTP connection?

Settings: this is a quad CPU machine, plenty strong, not loaded at all (neither CPU nor network), the client is a Windows Server 2008 64bit, the server is a linux box. I have four threads that are ...
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1answer
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Apache Timeout directive not working?

I have configured /etc/apache2/apache2.conf with Timeout 5 instead of the default 300. So I understand it should close an incoming connection after 5 seconds of inactivity. But I make a telnet ...
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2answers
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Windows Server 2008, Stuck on TCP Handshake

The problem: My Windows 2008 Server cannot establish TCP connections with remote machines. Steps to reproduce: I have a service running on a Windows 2008 Server machine on port 40.000 with the ip ...