What sort of network stats would be useful to diagnose the problem? Below is the output of netstat -s
It looks like data is being transmitted fine up until the point that the remote server sends a [TCP Window Update] (see packet 1750 below). At that point my postfix server doesn't respond and the next packet is a timeout from the remote server. All of the data is transferred in about a second and there is no delay in the tcpdump until right before the timeout. > No. Time Source Destination > Protocol Length Info > 1750 2016-11-08 17:32:23.323985 DDD.222.3.44 10.10.10.123 > TCP 66 [TCP Window Update] smtp > 47372 [ACK] Seq=264 Ack=6071217 > Win=28960 Len=0 TSval=989115902 TSecr=2863598 > > Frame 1750: 66 bytes on wire (528 bits), 66 bytes captured (528 bits) > Ethernet II, Src: Dell_53:eb:0c (00:13:72:53:eb:0c), Dst: > RealtekU_bd:b1:11 > (52:54:00:bd:b1:11) > Internet Protocol Version 4, Src: DDD.222.3.44 (DDD.222.3.44), Dst: > 10.10.10.123 (10.10.10.123) > Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: smtp (25), Dst Port: 47372 > (47372), > Seq: 264, Ack: 6071217, Len: 0 #netstat -s Ip: 1573140 total packets received 3130 with invalid addresses 0 forwarded 0 incoming packets discarded 1276252 incoming packets delivered 649817 requests sent out Icmp: 65 ICMP messages received 3 input ICMP message failed. ICMP input histogram: timeout in transit: 45 echo requests: 4 echo replies: 16 3522 ICMP messages sent 0 ICMP messages failed ICMP output histogram: destination unreachable: 3463 echo request: 55 echo replies: 4 IcmpMsg: InType0: 16 InType8: 4 InType11: 45 OutType0: 4 OutType3: 3463 OutType8: 55 Tcp: 3867 active connections openings 20871 passive connection openings 3 failed connection attempts 1701 connection resets received 3 connections established 729373 segments received 981408 segments send out 2196 segments retransmited 0 bad segments received. 4880 resets sent Udp: 103932 packets received 3463 packets to unknown port received. 4 packet receive errors 97291 packets sent InCsumErrors: 4 UdpLite: TcpExt: 75 invalid SYN cookies received 14488 TCP sockets finished time wait in fast timer 10723 delayed acks sent 3 delayed acks further delayed because of locked socket 67 packets directly queued to recvmsg prequeue. 2662149 bytes directly in process context from backlog 7208 bytes directly received in process context from prequeue 255804 packet headers predicted 1888 packets header predicted and directly queued to user 130231 acknowledgments not containing data payload received 225519 predicted acknowledgments 15 times recovered from packet loss by selective acknowledgements 133 congestion windows recovered without slow start after partial ack 32 fast retransmits 4 forward retransmits 267 other TCP timeouts TCPLossProbes: 1547 TCPLossProbeRecovery: 360 1633 DSACKs received 1746 connections reset due to unexpected data 395 connections reset due to early user close 36 connections aborted due to timeout TCPDSACKIgnoredNoUndo: 1456 TCPSackShifted: 237 TCPSackMerged: 69 TCPSackShiftFallback: 189 IPReversePathFilter: 7 TCPRcvCoalesce: 57204 TCPAutoCorking: 4 TCPSynRetrans: 196 TCPOrigDataSent: 731195 IpExt: InBcastPkts: 447052 InOctets: 703894455 OutOctets: 858029660 InBcastOctets: 48518221 InNoECTPkts: 1573150 -- View this message in context: http://postfix.1071664.n5.nabble.com/421-4-4-2-service-timed-out-tp87189p87192.html Sent from the Postfix Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.