Your TCP/IP stack should eventually give up either due to a timer expiring
or a retry count being exceeded. If they are hanging around forever, then it
has to be a local stack bug right?
(FWIW I see lingering connections on Solaris 2.6 from time to time with
qmail-smtpd - sigh).
Regards.
At 06:44 PM 2/12/99 -0500, Paul Farber wrote:
>Wow.. ain't computers neat!
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>From what I understand is that qmail-remote is waiting for the close
>message? I only have 1 or 2 qmail-remote processes when I ps ax.
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>In any case... how do I kill a lingering tcp connection?? Sorry, I know
>this is not the networking list... but I cringe at the thought of posting
>my e-mail address in a newsgoup.
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>Paul D. Farber II
>Farber Technology
>717-628-5303
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