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Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2002 13:41:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
To:        david@catwhisker.org, freebsd-ipfw@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird problem with ipfw (possibly natd/libalias, but I doubt it)
Message-ID:  <200210012041.g91KfJRo007841@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
In-Reply-To: <200209300639.g8U6dTFf001254@bunrab.catwhisker.org>

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>Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:39:29 -0700 (PDT)
>From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>

>What happened is that a specialized application that my spouse uses --
>and has been using without incident for several months -- failed its
>(internal) authentication when she tried to connect when the firewall
>was running today's -STABLE.  I rebooted the firewall from the alternate
>boot slice (as fallback), and now it works.

False alarm.

After a colleague (maxim) looked through the packet captures, he
suggested that the observed failure was an artifact of the selected
server (out of the pool of load-sharing boxes) hardware & OS running,
but the service failing to respond to Spouse's clients requests for
service.

I finally(!) had a chance to test again (boot from the other slice & see
if things work) ... and no problem observed.

Sorry if I alarmed anyone unnecessarily.

Cheers,
david       (links to my resume at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david)
-- 
David H. Wolfskill				david@catwhisker.org
To paraphrase David Hilbert, there can be no conflicts between the
discipline of systems administration and Microsoft, since they have
nothing in common.

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