On 10/13/2018 04:17 PM, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Something strange is going on. I'm on Spectrum cable. The advertised bandwidth is 200Mbps. Since most of may LAN is 100Mbps Ethernet, I don't see that speed. If I plug my laptop (Gigabit Ethernet) directly into the cable modem I see the adverised bandwidth, but several things fail: fetch from Google Apps e-mail (Ruby script), outgoing mail to same account (Thunderbird), and updating Ruby gems (gem and bundle). All error messages indicate a timeout after a half minute to minute. There may be others but these I know. Web sites work fine. Outgoing e-mail thru noise.org (local Mail Service Provider) works fine. Plug into the WiFi router w/ NAT connected to the cable modem and everything works fine.
This is on 42.3. I'm using OpenSuSE's firewall and Portsentry (3rd party). The logs seem to show a possible correlation with the failed services timing and TCP SYN/Normal scan from various ripe.net addresses (Portsentry). Also blocked TCP connections (SuSEfirewall2). Turning off Portsentry does not fix the problem. Stopping the firewall doesn't help either.
So possibly this is a server policy to check WHOIS on connections? And with my laptop, the firewall is blocking ripe.net, the usual WHOIS provider?
Suggestion, explanations, etc. welcome, Jeffrey
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