jason hirsh:
> 08:40:31.036997 IP mail-iy0-f182.google.com.51101 >
> tuna.theoceanwindow-bv.com.smtp: Flags [S], seq 850119283, win 5720,
> options [mss 1430,sackOK,TS val 2972295960 ecr 0,nop,wscale 6], length 0
So, you are receiving connection attempts from a Google system
mail-iy0-f182.google.com. This has IP address 209.85.210.182.
I also notice that tuna.theoceanwindow-bv.com has an IP address
of 209.160.65.133.
What is the output of
ifconfig -a | grep 209.160
If the netmask is mis-configured (say, 0xff000000) then that explains
why we see no responses to connection attempts from 209.85.210.182
(and other 209.* IP addresses).
The reason is that your machine is sending out ARP requests to the
local subnet for 209.85.210.182. Of course it gets no response,
and therefore it never replies to connection attempts from that IP
address.
FYI this means that no-one in 209.* would be able to connect to
your web server as well.
Wietse
