Three-minute timeout during surfing?

bscott at ntisys.com bscott at ntisys.com
Tue Aug 27 10:13:28 EDT 2002


On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, at 9:30am, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> Ahhhm, just curious here, but why would a web server be sending out 
> *any* packets, including HTTP requests.

  That's the point.  Obviously, something is broken; the goal is to find out
what.  Maybe it is sending a DNS query, or an ident query, or trying to make
a database connection to something else, or who knows what.  So, first,
eliminate that possibility.

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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