Re: rwhod: Connection refused
Alan Cox (alan@cymru.net)
Mon, 15 Apr 1996 03:27:46 +0100 (BST)
> Now, as far as I can see, it looks as through recvfrom() is returning
> ECONNREFUSED instead of EINTR when it's interrupted by the alarm.
> Certainly it doesn't seem to make a lot of sense for recvfrom() to ever
> return ECONNREFUSED normally. Am I doing something obviously wrong, and
> has anybody else seen this?
You have a broken machine (probably SunOS) replying to your broadcast
with an ICMP unreachable port.
Alan