[ale] Cygwin

[Watson, Keith R.]

Check to make sure you are not waiting for the client to respond to
IDENT. Windows by default doesn't respond to IDENT. If you configure it
to and then turn on the Windows firewall it will break IDENT unless you
specifically allow it.

The simplest thing to do is configure Apache not to require IDENT. You
can easily start a religious war over the use of IDENT (layer 9 of the
OSI model).

Is your web server checking for a reverse DNS of the client's IP
address? This can also cause a delay or no content at all.

Since this problem occurred after applying patches be sure to check your
Windows firewall settings. They may have changed.

There is also the possibility that the patch has affected the API cigwin
uses to talk to the network. To find this you'll need to use Wireshark
as the other poster mentioned. Also check the cigwin forums to see if
anyone else has reported a problem.

Happy debugging,
keith

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Keith R. Watson                        Georgia Institute of Technology
Systems Support Specialist IV          College of Computing
keith.watson at cc.gatech.edu             801 Atlantic Drive NW
(404) 385-7401                         Atlanta, GA  30332-0280

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
Terry
> Bailey
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 13:24
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Cygwin
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have hesitated about sending this in because Windows 2003 is
> envolved and I hope I don't get blown away.
> 
> I am using Cygwin on 2003 because I am using Perl scripts to generate
> Web pages on-the-fly and I am using concepts/properties that only
> occur in the Linux environment.  So far (over a year), Cygwin has
> been steady as a rock.
> 
> After there is an automatic update by Windows which causes Windows to
> reboot, it takes about 15 to 20 minutes before access is available to
> the Cygwin Apache site over The Internet even though ps - ef shows
> six copies of Apache running (i.e., /usr/sbin/httpd six times).
> 
> Any help relative to what is going on would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry Bailey
> 
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