Hello Jonathan, in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] was written:
JA> On Friday, August 30, 2002, Peter Palmreuther wrote... MDP>>> I think that the client side Socket connection is left open and MDP>>> until it is flagged as closed TB won't open a new one. >> But how to tell? 'netstat' didn't show me an open socket neither on >> my client nor on my server when I wan into that trouble. JA> Netstat might not show an internal component having an open connection JA> if Windows has terminated the connection, and the component didn't JA> acknowledge it. So the socket _ain't_ open. the TCP stack does not know anything about it, therefore the socket ain't open, it's only the component that hangs ... my words ... >> And it was done. If I shut down the daemon listening to port 110 the normal >> TCP mechanisms stepped in and the connection was terminated with an error >> message, as it is supposed to be. JA> This wasn't the kind of connection termination I was thinking of. The JA> daemon in this case drops the connections safely, and reports valid JA> terminations... No. I killed it '-9' with no chance to do _anything_. I plugged out the cable, so no chance to report and acknowledge _anything_ .... -- Regards Peter Palmreuther (The Bat! v1.62/Beta1 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2) Diplomacy: The art of letting someone else get your way. ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html