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Originally Posted by reflexx
. My fantastic (cough) Belkin router thought this was a SYN flood attack and blocked the connection, causing the connection to time out. Turns out the Belkin doesnt do stateful inspection and had no concept of inside/outside the network.
Anyway, turned off the DDoS protection thing on the router (they just call it a Firewall - ha) and all is now great again.
ReFlexx
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It was probably the router, but any shades of a flood attack, even a false positive, would send my antenna up; I would do a virus/malware sweep also just to be sure and try to reconfigure your firewall with different settings.