[CentOS] Yum/WGET/HTTP sourceforge etc.

Mon Apr 12 00:53:02 UTC 2010
Rob Kampen <rkampen at kampensonline.com>

On Apr 11, 2010, at 6:57 PM, tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:

>
> I am having a problem with 5.4 that I did not have with 4.5. The  
> problem happens only sometimes but in specific
> instances. Basically a summary of the problem is that certain  
> network transactions timeout. The specfic instances
> are with wget, rpm, http. The problem usually, but not always,  
> occurs with pptp stuff. (NOT running pptp but getting pptp stuff).
>
> For instance, the following command, which finishes in seconds on  
> non-5.4 OS's:
>
> wget http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/rhel4/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
>
> downloads about 20% then gets stuck. About 5 minutes later it  
> downloads another 20% and
> then gets stuck, etc. The same thing with rpm:
>
> rpm -ivh http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/rhel4/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
>
> waits about 3 minutes and then gives an error. I think it does the  
> same thing as the wget but
> wget will keep trying, while rpm gives up. The error from rpm:
>
> Retrieving http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/yum/stable/rhel4/pptp-release-current.noarch.rpm
> ..five minutes later:
> error: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.DYY9e0: headerRead failed: hdr blob(7456):  
> BAD, read returned 3568
> error: /var/tmp/rpm-xfer.DYY9e0 cannot be installed
>
> I can wget the above as I mentioned before and install it that way.  
> Before I do it, yum works fine.
> Afterwards, yum exhibits the same behavior of timing out (because it  
> is using the pptp repository).
> Also visiting the pptp web site from Firefox times out on certain  
> pages.
>
> I originally thought it was some problem with the pptp site, but I  
> notice that log into hotmail.com
> does the same thin (fine on other operating systems). A view with  
> Wireshark on the wget (pptp)
> shows the my machine receiving a reassembled TCPPDU from  
> 216.34.181.96 (Sourceforge), sending an ack, receiving a
> reassembled PDU, sending an ack, receiving, sending followed by the  
> 5 minutes or whatever of nothing. Then sourceforge
> sends an RST and a SYN and the process is repeated.
>
> Here is what I tried. When I put the machine directly on an AT&T IP  
> connection (12.147.X.Y) everything worked fine.
> Same with Comcast on a direct link. The times I am having problems  
> is when our router is hooked up to a Comcast
> IP (70.88.X.Y) and assigns 192.168.5.X addresses to our machines. So  
> when I was doing the above from 192.168.5.27
> going through the router through Comcast is when I had the problem.
>
> So it is probably something with the router, but it is hard to  
> figure out since CentOS 4.5 and Fedora do not exhibit this
> behavior, nor does 5.4 on most sites (mail.yahoo.com for instance).  
> I did verify, at least from what I could, that ICMP
> type 3 and 4 are not being blocked. If they were, the same problem  
> would happen on other op systems. And I was able
> to ping, albeit just locally, but we looked at the router settings  
> and ping was not blocked.
>
> Anyone else have this problem / know what might be wrong?
>
Is this due to comcast doing a selective block on certain traffic?
Apparently the FCC was prevented from checking or preventing cable  
companies from selectively shapping traffic. May be nothing. Just a  
thought.
>
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