It happens on many servers, not just sourceforge - in fact, I get it on the netfilter server as well. And it's only sometimes for any given server, not all the time... I'll try turning on sendmail logging. I wasn't sure if there was anything an application could even do to trigger an RST, but I haven't done tcp programming in quite a while... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Antony Stone" <Antony@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <netfilter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:54 PM Subject: Re: RST instead of FIN? > On Saturday 10 April 2004 7:33 pm, Jay Levitt wrote: > > > 66.35.250.206, a sourceforge.net box, connects to my mail server to deliver > > an e-mail, as follows: > > > > sourceforge: [SYN] > > me: [SYN, ACK] > > sourceforge: [ACK] > > [SMTP conversation ensues, switches to TLS, sends me an e-mail. at the > > end..] me: [RST] > > sourceforge: [FIN, ACK] > > me: [RST] > > me: [RST] > > Makes no sense to me. Maybe you could check whether this happens when other > mail servers send you an email (ie: is it a consistent thing with your mail > server), or even whether it happens *every* time this particular mail server > talks to you, or only sometimes? > > I can't suggest why it might be happening, but I'd suggest turn on sendmail > debugging/verbose logging in order to see what it thinks is really going on. > I think it's an application-layer thing rather than a kernel/networking > thing, but that's a guess. > > Regards, > > Antony. > > -- > Software development can be quick, high quality, or low cost. > > The customer gets to pick any two out of three. > > Please reply to the list; > please don't CC me. > > >
