Re: [exim] Google/gmail timeouts, IPv6 conntrack issue?

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Author: Jeremy Harris
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Google/gmail timeouts, IPv6 conntrack issue?
On 17/02/2022 05:01, Christian Balzer via Exim-users wrote:
> If found it excruciatingly hard to correlate tcpdump and nf_conntrack
> flows, but those ICMP6 destination unreachable packets are the result of
> the local iptables rejecting a connection to port 43922 (the originating
> outbound SMTP session from here), something it allowed for the first 2
> seconds just fine.


I agree; I was just interested in the content of the ICMP
"destination unreachable" packets - they usually carry the
start of the cause packet as data. You might prefer to use
wireshark to poke around in the capture sample you showed.


> this is likely to result in nothing at all.


Unfortunately true.
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Cheers,
Jeremy