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

  • From: Jared Mauch
  • Date: Fri Nov 20 19:56:03 1998 
	I would guess bigIP as that's what their sales folks said
they used.  Our luck with them was less than that of what they said
it would be.  It's now no longer in our network.

	*big* mistake and big headache.

	- jared

On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 09:42:43PM -0200, 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 ?
> 
> 
> 
> Rubens Kuhl Jr.

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