Slowness and timeouts resolving qa.pay.gov

[Mark Andrews]

In message <2AA71BEDEBCF80449E35B7B640700BE43347B1B16C at EMAIL4.uspto.gov>, "Lear
, Karen (Evolver)" writes:
> My recursive DNS servers are intermittently timing out and giving slow respon
> ses to qa.pay.gov.  I haven't noticed problems with any other sites.  How can
>  I nail down where the problem is?  From my home, on comast.net, I don't have
>  slowness or timeouts resolving qa.pay.gov.
> 
> Thx,
> k

I suspect that you will find that your firewall is dropping non-initial
IP fragments.  Your firewall is still dropping non-initial IP
fragments in the responses from dns1.uspto.gov and dns2.uspto.gov.

Mark
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