I have Linux server (Ubuntu 16.04) where every serverce seems to be fine, except that it sometimes answers TCP connection very slowly (eg. 10 -20 sec) or not at all.
The server is not under load and this happens accross all TCP services (HTTP, SMTP, VOIP). Most connections are answered fast and it seems rather random when this slow down happens happens.
My guess is that this is inside the network stack.
Any idea how to debug this ?
I made 2 TCP dumps.
Not working:
15:10:07.281993 IP p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3237 > hetzner3.1740: Flags [S], seq 3664811831, win 8192, options [mss 1452,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0
15:10:10.281742 IP p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3237 > hetzner3.1740: Flags [S], seq 3664811831, win 8192, options [mss 1452,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0
15:10:16.282033 IP p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3237 > hetzner3.1740: Flags [S], seq 3664811831, win 8192, options [mss 1452,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0
Working
15:11:01.929326 IP p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238 > hetzner3.1740: Flags [S], seq 513688945, win 8192, options [mss 1452,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0
15:11:04.931110 IP p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238 > hetzner3.1740: Flags [S], seq 513688945, win 8192, options [mss 1452,nop,wscale 8,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0
15:11:10.930925 IP p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238 > hetzner3.1740: Flags [S], seq 513688945, win 8192, options [mss 1452,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0
15:11:10.930964 IP hetzner3.1740 > p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238: Flags [S.], seq 4087654018, ack 513688946, win 29200, options [mss 1460,nop,nop,sackOK], length 0
15:11:10.960346 IP p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238 > hetzner3.1740: Flags [.], ack 1, win 65340, length 0
15:11:10.971341 IP p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238 > hetzner3.1740: Flags [P.], seq 1:513, ack 1, win 65340, length 512
15:11:10.971371 IP hetzner3.1740 > p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238: Flags [.], ack 513, win 30016, length 0
15:11:10.971377 IP p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238 > hetzner3.1740: Flags [P.], seq 513:627, ack 1, win 65340, length 114
15:11:10.971388 IP hetzner3.1740 > p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238: Flags [.], ack 627, win 30016, length 0
15:11:10.974736 IP hetzner3.1740 > p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238: Flags [P.], seq 1:129, ack 627, win 30016, length 128
15:11:10.975473 IP hetzner3.1740 > p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238: Flags [P.], seq 129:281, ack 627, win 30016, length 152
15:11:11.006089 IP p4FC4B365.dip0.t-ipconnect.de.3238 > hetzner3.1740: Flags [.], ack 281, win 65060, length 0