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RE: SOLVED! The cause of puzzling TCP (eg. WHOIS) connection failureswith some InterNIC.net hosts


From: Marc Slemko <marcs () znep com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 16:17:41 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote:

The problem in this case is probably the load balancing systems that
NSI is now using, which have known bogus behaviour when interacting
with PMTU-D.  NSI should disable PMTU-D on their servers until they
can fix this problem; fixing this problem probably involves having
the vendor for their load balancing boxes fixing their broken
software.

What load balancing systems are known to mess up with PMTU-D ?

I would suggest that it appears that NSI is, as has previously been
mentioned on the list and f5's web page, using f5's BIG/ip boxes.



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