[21863] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: SOLVED! The cause of puzzling TCP (eg. WHOIS) connection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Slemko)
Sun Nov 22 01:52:11 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 16:17:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To: "Rubens Kuhl Jr." <rkj@uol.com.br>
cc: North America Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <003501be14df$77e5e450$0518e6c8@rubens.uol.com.br>
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.
