2015-01-30 16:45 GMT+03:00 Luc DALLEMANE <ldallem...@alaloop.com>:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm facing a problem with my web application.
>
>
> I'm using Tomcat 7.0.56, Java 1.8, Postgres 9.4 and Debian 7.
>
> The application is configured as followed :
>
>
> The web server is located in a DMZ.
>
> The database server is located in our LAN.
>
> To communicate with each other, a firewall has been setup (Cisco asa firewall)
>
>
> To authenticate an user to the website, I use the tomcat JDBC Realm.

1. Realm configuration =?
Is it JDBCRealm or DataSourceRealm? If it is the former, then your
<Resource> is not used at all.

2. Posting the actual password on a public mailing list? Consider it
compromised.


> At the beginning, everything works fine, but after about an hour of 
> inactivity, its impossible to authenticate again :
>
> Tomcat process seems to be running but doesn't log anything and doesn't 
> answer any other requests.
>
>
> The firewall is rejecting the connection with the following message : Deny 
> TCP (no connection) from WEB/50790 to DB/5432 FIN ACK on interface DMZ_clients
>
>
> I thought, the problem was after a while, if tomcat connexions were not used, 
> the firewall would drop them.
>
> So, I tried to add "keepAlive" time-outs (tomcat site, postgres side, ) but 
> none of them worked :
>
>
> Here is the tomcat context.xml :
>
>
>  <Resource name="jdbc/elkar" auth="Container"
>                 type="javax.sql.DataSource" 
> driverClassName="org.postgresql.Driver"
[...]
> />
>
>
> The postgresql.conf :
>
>
> # - TCP Keepalives -
> # see "man 7 tcp" for details
>
> #tcp_keepalives_idle = 300              # TCP_KEEPIDLE, in seconds;
>                                                      # 0 selects the system 
> default
> #tcp_keepalives_interval = 0            # TCP_KEEPINTVL, in seconds;
>                                                      # 0 selects the system 
> default
> #tcp_keepalives_count = 0
>
>
> And finally, the Sysctl.conf :
>
>
> net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 900
> net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl = 60
> net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes = 9
>
>
>
> Before that, the application was tested without using the firewall and 
> everything worked fine.
>
>
> If you have any idea of why this is happening, I haven't found a solution yet.
>
>
> Regards, Luc D.
>

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