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Re: is dnswl dead?


From: "Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu>
Date: Fri, 03 May 2019 12:47:25 -0400

On Fri, 03 May 2019 00:55:17 -0500, Jose Manuel Vazquez Castro said:

And check first connectivity ping and telnet tcp ports 22 , 873 to ips
destination's from your linuxbox:

Record A rsync2.dnswl.org
139.162.192.198
142.44.243.216

Or use in the command directly the ip.
You are behinds a router, proxy , Nat device. May cause problems or deny
filter traffic. If share a Wireshark capture will see what's happens  ..

From here, tcpdump/wireshark indicate that something is indeed amiss.
rsync gets through the 3-packet handshake, and then about 20 packets
ending thusly:

11:34:52.749962 IP 192.168.1.73.42138 > 139.162.192.198.rsync: Flags [.], ack 32, win 502, options [nop,nop,TS val 
3218474733 ecr 1658500094], length 0
11:34:52.750309 IP 192.168.1.73.42138 > 139.162.192.198.rsync: Flags [P.], seq 79:87, ack 32, win 502, options 
[nop,nop,TS val 3218474733 ecr 1658500094], length 8
11:34:52.851104 IP 139.162.192.198.rsync > 192.168.1.73.42138: Flags [.], ack 87, win 227, options [nop,nop,TS val 
1658500119 ecr 3218474733], length 0
11:34:53.162604 IP 139.162.192.198.rsync > 192.168.1.73.42138: Flags [R.], seq 32, ack 87, win 227, options [nop,nop,TS 
val 1658500197 ecr 3218474733], length 0

The far end tosses an ACK for the packet, and then an ACK/RST rather than a FIN.
Rather anti-social - usually indicative of the daemon at the far end crashing and
closing the socket.

(Side note - is it me, or does the rsync dissector for wireshark do a less than optimal job?)

(And yes, I know for a fact that my router doesn't bork rsync, as it works
for other stuff on a regular basis..)

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