Tim <ignored_mailbox <at> yahoo.com.au> writes:
Can you browse the smolt website with your web browser? I found it painfully slow the other day (e.g. well over half a minute to get just the home page to show), perhaps the server is getting bogged down, or maybe it's a routing issue between it and some ISPs. If so, the smolt daemon mightn't like trying to interact with it just as badly as my browser didn't like things.
It seems that in fact this is not the origin of the problem... I ran wireshark to see what was going on, and it turns out that trying to send the smolt profile makes a call out from port 53291 and expects an answer on that port coming back. I think that this must be where the problem is because port 53291 inbound will almost certainly be blocked by our institution firewall.
547 22.798949 mymachine.com admin.fedoraproject.org TCP 53291 > http [SYN] Seq=0 Len=0 MSS=1460 TSV=76373242 TSER=0 WS=5 549 22.976047 admin.fedoraproject.org mymachine.com TCP http > 53291 [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=741376 Len=0 MSS=1380 TSV=637700593 TSER=76373242 WS=7 550 22.976108 mymachine.com admin.fedoraproject.org TCP 53291 > http [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=5856 Len=0 TSV=76373419 TSER=637700593 551 22.976220 mymachine.com admin.fedoraproject.org HTTP GET /token_json?uuid=blahblahblah HTTP/1.1 552 23.152948 admin.fedoraproject.org mymachine.com TCP http > 53291 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=153 Win=6912 Len=0 TSV=637700638 TSER=76373420 688 50.789010 mymachine.com admin.fedoraproject.org TCP 53291 > http [FIN, ACK] Seq=153 Ack=1 Win=5856 Len=0 TSV=76401232 TSER=637700638 689 51.000314 admin.fedoraproject.org mymachine.com TCP http > 53291 [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=154 Win=6912 Len=0 TSV=637707601 TSER=76401232
So I guess I am stumped.