[fpc-devel] Server availability

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2011, Jonas Maebe wrote:

>
> On 06 Sep 2011, at 13:24, Alexander Klenin wrote:
>
>> Hm. This may be an issue with my provider then.
>> However, the only site affected is freepascal.org, which is very strange.
>> Will try to call the provider to investigate.
>
> There is one known problem: the server is behind a brain dead firewall, which 
> drops most icmp packets (except for ping). This includes the "fragmentation 
> needed" packets used for path mtu discovery 
> (http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/rfc/rfc1191.txt).

If there is a firewall, it is at the ISP.

The server itself is located before the company firewall.

Maybe the router drops the icmp packets.

Michael.