[zeromq-dev] ESTABLISHED connection mismatch

2013-04-09 Thread Garrett Smith
I don't know if this is a 0MQ question or a general networking question. I know that I'm confused. I'm troubleshooting some message delivery problems and I've run across this scenario: The ESTABLISHED tcp connections on one server don't match the corresponding connections on the other server.

Re: [zeromq-dev] ESTABLISHED connection mismatch

2013-04-09 Thread Michel Pelletier
Is there NATing between these two hosts? RFC 5382 has some guidelines on idle timeout for established connections, you might be hitting that limit. -Michel On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Garrett Smith g...@rre.tt wrote: I don't know if this is a 0MQ question or a general networking

Re: [zeromq-dev] ESTABLISHED connection mismatch

2013-04-09 Thread Garrett Smith
No NATing that I'm aware of. But this is EC2, so there could be shenanigans afoot. (Shenanigans btw, is the most advanced descriptor in my network layer vocabulary.) The 6 established connections on the router-server are still shown via netstat -- even after these many hours have passed. If

Re: [zeromq-dev] ESTABLISHED connection mismatch

2013-04-09 Thread Michel Pelletier
Are you using their VPC technology or talking over elastic IPs? The elastic IP stuff does seem to involve some shenanigans, in that it must forward or somehow bind the public ip to the internal one. If you use VPC, I don't think there's that translation layer involved. Other than that, I'm out