CP — thanks for the empowered googling – It was one of the sites
I was blocked form —
Okay – for wierdness this is pretty good –
As I mentioned initially – this happened in everything –
Safari, Camino, FireFox, hell I dug out an old copy of Lynx and built it — same thing happened. I had a friendly talk (yes really) with our network guy — after some tricky snort runs we found that our Pix firewall was the causing the problem. There is a bug in the software that if a packet doesn’t have the appropriate checksum it will leave the channel hanging open — AND send a reset. So I would send out ACKs to the world and the firewall would hit me with a reset packet.
We used a bone headed manuver – simply switching IP numbers – sudden everything was cured. This was confirmed by visually grepping through a few thousand lines of Pix logs. Funny thing — I coulld not find any corresponding error conditions in any of the system logging functions.
So with fingers crossed — no burning the OS to the ground today.
By the way — your early april fools joke seemed to closer on target than you first gave it credit. It appears that all one needs is a decent TV card to make the mini a tivo like box. Though Front Row will need some improvements to handle the live video feed.
CP — thanks for the empowered googling – It was one of the sites
I was blocked form —
Okay – for wierdness this is pretty good –
As I mentioned initially – this happened in everything –
Safari, Camino, FireFox, hell I dug out an old copy of Lynx and built it — same thing happened. I had a friendly talk (yes really) with our network guy — after some tricky snort runs we found that our Pix firewall was the causing the problem. There is a bug in the software that if a packet doesn’t have the appropriate checksum it will leave the channel hanging open — AND send a reset. So I would send out ACKs to the world and the firewall would hit me with a reset packet.
We used a bone headed manuver – simply switching IP numbers – sudden everything was cured. This was confirmed by visually grepping through a few thousand lines of Pix logs. Funny thing — I coulld not find any corresponding error conditions in any of the system logging functions.
So with fingers crossed — no burning the OS to the ground today.
By the way — your early april fools joke seemed to closer on target than you first gave it credit. It appears that all one needs is a decent TV card to make the mini a tivo like box. Though Front Row will need some improvements to handle the live video feed.