[158991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: www.eftps.gov contact
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Tue Dec 18 15:51:38 2012
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:37:16 CDT."
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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:51:17 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, Darren Pilgrim <nanog@bitfreak.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <CAL9jLaZMV9yo7Yzsydcj7U0o+DjHACEJ7z0ypN_00f+iM=JYuw@mail.gmail.com>, Christopher Morrow writes:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 18, 2012, at 12:22 , Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> In message <CAL9jLabwE_e+VfzwYBTbrP50EicBvQ7z3XUQ3qwf3FHMiDLS0g@mail.gmail.com>, Christopher Morrow
> >>> writes:
> >>>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Darren Pilgrim <nanog@bitfreak.org> wrote:
> >>>>> 4890
> >>>>
> >>>> it might not be their (eftps.gov's) fault though... but sure.
> >>>
> >>> If you run a server you should be expecting PTB for both IPv4 and
> >>> IPv6. If you have broken equipement in front of the server you can
> >>> set IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU to 1 on IPv6 sockets. There is no excuse to
> >>> have connections broken due to PMTUD.
> >>
> >> sure there is! "my isp filters icmp"
> >
> > Get a better ISP.
>
> both of you crack me up.
Setting IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU on a IPv6 socket is a couple of lines of
code in the http server. Been there, done that. If you can't do
that then set the interface MTU to 1280. I repeat there is no
excuse to have connection broken due to PMTU issues. A compentent
sys admin can work around upstream problems.
Mark
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