On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
>
> 2.0.20, just did the following:
>
> # killall -9 httpd
>
> still, a "telnet localhost 80" got me a "Connected to ...."
> but there was no process listening on port 80. trying to
> received data (GET / HTTP/1.0<cr><cr> manually) did not produce
> anything (no "invalid url" or "connection closed", just a hang).
>
> netstat showed a connection at port 80 in FIN_WAIT2
>
> after a while, a "telnet localhost 80" would simply result
> in nothing, neither a "Connected to ..." nor a "Connection refused".
> the telnet would just hang (eventually timing out, which I did not
> wait for).
>
> in this status, I tried to start a new httpd, but the daemon would
> fail with an error message: "couldn not bind to port" (cern-httpd).
>
> I had to reboot the machine in order to start httpd again.
>
> /herp
>
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