> imho you are thinking too hard. plan9 behavior doesn't have > to be "intuitively" correct; it has to match what the rfc > says. your first message said "icmp unreachable messages do > not terminate the connection". this is not necessarily a bug
no. that's not what i said. i said, icmp unreachable messages *sometimes* terminate the connection. and there's no excuse for that unreliablity. the packet was not dropped by the nic. this discussion would be shorter if you'd read what i wrote. - erik