Philipp Tölke <[email protected]> added the comment:
The TCP-issues from my post are all resolved. I now know how TCP works; the
behaviour of python seems to be correct.
About the imap-behaviour:
m...@harga ~$ python
Python 2.5.5 (r255:77872, Apr 21 2010, 08:40:04)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import imaplib
>>> c = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("post.in.tum.de")
>>> c.login("toelke", "XXX")
('OK', ['LOGIN Ok.'])
>>> c.logout()
('BYE', ['Courier-IMAP server shutting down'])
>>> <C-d>
m...@harga ~$
At the time of the logout() the server closes his connection and sends a
FIN-packet. If python is closed, it sends not a FIN-Packet but a RST-paket.
The "problem" I have with this is, that the Linux-Packetfilter-Firewall does
not expect this RST-Packet either and in out configuration logs this as a
connection in the wrong state which is generally a security-problem.
Our workaround for the last year has been
iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --tcp-flags ACK,RST ACK,RST -d 131.159.22.43 -j DROP
Thanks for the help!
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