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   knigma-m: Hi - been running a VM for a while and everytime I reboot it I find I cannot connect to it again from my laptop for a while. Playing with tcpdump it looks like my outgoing TCP SYNs are not making it to my VM after a reboot. Is there some sort of firewall between my VM and the Internet that could be causing a problem?
   robonerd: hm good question
   knigma-m: essentally after a reboot ssh access via TCP port 22 seems down from my laptop for ~25 minutes, but from other IPs it's ok
   
 and ping works
   
 my laptop ssh client will have been trying to reconnect every few seconds during the reboot; I wonder if it's tickling some protection I'm not aware of
   
 it also seems tcp port specific - so far only affecting port 22
   
 SYNs to other TCP ports get through
   CaZe: Highly doubtful.
   knigma-m: doubtful perhaps; but something is blocking my SYNs and it's not the OS on the VM sfaict
   
 this time it took 5 minutes for them to get through after a reboot
   
 so essentially I have to wait 5-25 minutes after a reboot before I can reconnect
   
 ideas welcome - if anyone can think of anything else that might cause this behaviour
   sdkmvx: knigma-m, why is your laptop constantly trying to connect while its off?
   knigma-m: just what my Windows ssh client does - keep retrying since it's configured to be a persistent connection
   
 ...never caused a problem before
   
 means the ssh connection is re-established every time I switch networks or suspend/resume
   
 I've no *evidence* that's triggering the issue; I just cannot think of another explanation
   sdkmvx: perhaps turning it off and seeing whether it still blocks connections after a reboot will give more information.
   knigma-m: ok - I'll do that now ;)
   
 yes - was able to re-connect first time if I allowed a reboot to complete first. Can anyone confirm that there *is* some sort of firewall in front of my VM that would explain this behaviour?
   robonerd: seems to be. this would be good to know
   knigma-m: ...perhaps trying to protect against port scans or random IP searching
   robonerd: that is question 1. question 2 would be if your client supports reconnect throttling
   knigma-m: q2. No, sadly not. I guess it waits for a TCP connection timeout and once it gets that retries immediately.
   
 I'm fine with it if I can explain it - just I haven't seen any documentation that explains there's a firewall in front of my VM.
   
 ...so I spent ages assuming is was somethign screwed up on my laptop
   
 perhaps it looks like a SYN flood, but it really shouldn't that that aggresive, Windows doesn't send that many SYNs.
   ant: knigma-m: there is some kind of filtering to prevent ssh brute force
   robonerd: seems quite aggressive if it's preventing persistent connection clients
   knigma-m: ok - thanks; I can live with that - just seems a little too sensitive
   robonerd: yes
   
 i agree
   
 any way we can have that throttled down in sensitivity somewhat?
   knigma-m: it's just one persistent client - so I guess only a SYN a second
   ant: ha, found it: http://irclogger.arpnetworks.com/irclogger_log_search/arpnetworks?search=ssh+syn&action=search&error=0
   robonerd: it should be higher
   
 like more than 60 in 1 minute, not 10
   knigma-m: thanks - good - problem understood - that's kina crazy low though
   robonerd: no brute force will be effective at only 1 per second
   
 brute force begins at 10+/sec imo
   ant: i have seen ssh brute force at much lower rates...
   knigma-m: running a quick test; a few successful ssh connections also trips the filter, so it's not resistricted to unsuccessful attempts
   
 just "ssh x.y.z ls" a few times trips it
   ant: no it just counts syns
   knigma-m: but a relatively short break from SYNs seems to remove the filter; so my problem is that my ssh client never takes a break
   ant: to only count unsuccessful attempts the rate limiting would need to happen on the host not on some router in between
   knigma-m: yep - would require a stateful rule; ok well at least I know it's not my end that's broken - thanks for the input
   ant: err, host is ambigous. i mean the ssh server, i.e. the vps
   knigma-m: the "rule" only blocks SYNs, once existing TCP connections from the same IP aren't impacted
   ant: well, that would be very bad...
   robonerd: :)
   ant: like typing to fast and get disconnected...
   knigma-m: lol
   robonerd: :P
   
 i need to make that a t shirt; "I type so fast my firewall's TCP throttle rate is exceeded"
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   up_the_irons2: that would indeed be a good tshirt
   brycec: oh hey it's another up_the_irons2
   up_the_irons: migrating to latest weechat and bitlbee, so i have two servers runnin' at the moment
   
 anyone have a way to get better 256 color support in weechat 4?  i mean, i have it doing 256 colors, but *by default*, it only defines like 20 of them...   you can define others, but i'd rather not have to do it all on my own ;)
   brycec: up_the_irons/up_the_irons2: After the earlier discussion, I went looking through the FAQ but there's no mention that ARP has any firewalling. I think this really ought to be published, eg "we don't firewall anything except..."
   up_the_irons: i tend to agree
   -: brycec was under the impression that there was absolutely no firewalling
   mnathani: Then there is the outbound UDP ratelimiting as well
   brycec: oh is there? any specific ports?
   brachiation: are you cheating on irssi?
   
 poor irrsula...
   brycec: brachiation: up_the_irons has run weechat for as long as I can remember, and even longer according to the logs :p
   brachiation: i could have sworn it was irssi... i like irssi myself.
   brycec: I'm happy with irssi. I've tried weechat, and have no complaints really... I'm just entrenched in irssi nowadays
   brachiation: the default weechat theme reminds me of a circus.
   mike-burns: The /clown_act command is my favorite part, though the /lion_tamer bit is fun too.
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   brachiation: i like how they gzip all those clowns in the carball.
   robonerd: brycec i agree, it should be explicit somewhere
   
 docs!
   up_the_irons: brachiation: nah, i've been on weechat for as long as i can remember..  was in irssi before