On 2015-02-18, Stefan Wollny <stefan.wol...@web.de> wrote: > Am 02/18/15 um 17:08 schrieb Stuart Henderson: >> On 2015-02-18, Stefan Wollny <stefan.wol...@web.de> wrote: >>> Could "mss 1460" be the core of the issue? I have the following: >>> >>> ~ $ sudo cat /etc/pf.conf | grep mss match in all scrub (no-df >>> random-id max-mss 1440) >>> >>> ~ $ sudo cat /etc/sysctl.conf | grep mss >>> net.inet.tcp.mssdflt=1440 >> >> Neither of these make sense on a typical laptop, and they make me >> query what else you might have changed on the system.
Oh, so I see where you got these now. PLEASE IGNORE CALOMEL DOT ORG, THE SITE GIVES BAD ADVICE. >> What does pfctl -si say? >> >> When you get the "no route to host", what does e.g. "route -n get >> 8.8.8.8" say? (i.e. some host on the internet). Are you able to >> ping your fritzbox or the proxy-server at that time? >> > > Hi Stuart, > > to answer your question: No, the line is dead - I can't ping anything. Well, I asked several questions, in the hope of trying to find out what's actually going on rather than working around by bouncing the connections off another machine. Oh well. > But I just received off-list the suggestion from Gene that the > environment variables might not being passed on to root. I followed > his advice like so: Yes various people had already mentioned that about sudo on-list too ;)