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  This is one reason I hate firewalls—they make troubleshooting network issues
                                so much harder …
                                        
Yesterday's issues [1] were partly caused by an issue with our upstream
provider doing something to our TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) traffic,
and now the single packet authentication [2] is working. 

Grrrrrrrrrr … 

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2009/02/28.1
[2] http://cipherdyne.org/fwknop/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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