Time Response

[Tony Earnshaw]

Florent wrote:

> A box pings through the firewall and waits for response,
> The FW don't even see the connection beginning during ~5 sec,
> The FW sees the connections FORWARD Table packets increasing,
> The ping-box receives many pongs a a short time and then receives the others normally.

> If I try to ping again a short time after everything's OK.
> I saw this behaviour for a couple of protocoles (POP3, SMTP ..).

Incorrectly configured DNS?

Tony

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