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Sync fails with "Failed to connect to server"

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I have successfully connected to my sync account, yet syncing always fails with the above error message.

I have tried with safe mode. I am not behind a weird prozy.

Also, I noticed https://accounts.firefox.com/settings/communication_preferences never finishes loading (console message "Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://api.accounts.firefox.com/v1/certificate/sign. (Reason: CORS request failed).")

Here is a paste of a failure log: https://pastebin.mozilla.org/8838575 It expires within a day.

I have successfully connected to my sync account, yet syncing always fails with the above error message. I have tried with safe mode. I am not behind a weird prozy. Also, I noticed https://accounts.firefox.com/settings/communication_preferences never finishes loading (console message "Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://api.accounts.firefox.com/v1/certificate/sign. (Reason: CORS request failed).") Here is a paste of a failure log: https://pastebin.mozilla.org/8838575 It expires within a day.

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Try:

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I have an MTU of 1500, so normal.

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Synced successfully a few minutes ago, without having any setting changed.

Also, the mentioned CORS problem seems fixed.

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Back at home, sync is broken again, and the CORS problem reappeared. What could that be?

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I have

  • tried wired network instead of wifi
  • plugging into the cable modem instead of the router that's behind it
  • using google's dns instead of the router's dns proxy thingy

all of which did not work.

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With an idea and some googling, I could narrow it down further.

It appears to be this bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1118958. I disabled IPv6 and did a

sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_mtu_probing=2

and suddenly, sync worked again.

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I managed to launch wireshark today and have some conclusions.

With net.ipv4.tcp_mtu_probing=0, tcp packets from my have the don't fragment bit set, and the ICMP fragmentation needed responses I get when trying to sync are ignored.

To me, that sounds like a bug. At the least, net.ipv4.tcp_mtu_probing=1 (which works as well as =2) could be an OS default.

Unsure what's the right way to deal with this...