On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 04:55:59 +0200, Marinos Yannikos m...@geizhals.at
wrote:
sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_tw_reuse=1
This fixed the issue apparently, so bind() seems to choose ports in
TIME_WAIT state for some reason with sin_port=0 and that caused it.
Regards,
Marinos
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Hi,
I'm not sure that this is not a configuration or networking issue (so
apologies if it is), but we seem to be getting rare (a few times/day)
failures with ident authentication because several clients attempt to do
it simultaneously over a high-latency connection (capitalized = edited
Marinos Yannikos m...@geizhals.at writes:
I'm not sure that this is not a configuration or networking issue (so
apologies if it is), but we seem to be getting rare (a few times/day)
failures with ident authentication because several clients attempt to do
it simultaneously over a
I wrote:
I don't think it's a race condition per se. The code ought to be
setting up the address argument for bind() with sin_port = 0 so that
an unused port number gets assigned. That seems to be what happens on
a couple of machines that I tried here, but I notice that the Linux
manpage
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:51:59 +0200, Tom Lane t...@sss.pgh.pa.us wrote:
I looked at the glibc source code for getaddrinfo, and it looks like
they do reliably set sin_port to zero when no service argument is
provided, despite the above documentation statement. So that's why it
works for me. But
