[plug] Need help deciphering tcpdump

[James Devenish]

In message <20031017090032.GA4848 at mail.guild.uwa.edu.au>
on Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 05:00:32PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> > 15:54:27.906573 130.95.39.9 > 134.243.85.3: icmp: 130.95.39.9 unreachable - need to frag (mtu 1400) [tos 0xc0]
> 
> Your host has received this message from a remote router. It occurs for
> the reason Craig said (i.e. mtu is 1400 rather than what your host sent
> PLUS the packet has the dont'-fragment bit set).

BTW I originally wrote "this is normal" but then deleted those words
because I couldn't remember why it would be normal. However, after
Googling, my memory is refreshed (path MTU discovery).

In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0310171657330.16738-100000 at ob.golden.wattle.id.au>
on Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:59:16PM +0800, Mike Holland wrote:
> The "z3950" is a name from your /etc/services file:
> z39.50		210/tcp		z3950 wais	# NISO Z39.50 database 

LOL classic.


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