Re: tcp strangness

Stephen R. van den Berg (srb@cuci.nl)
Thu, 19 Sep 1996 02:37:34 +0200

Delman Lee <delman@amsta.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
>srb@cuci.nl (Stephen R. van den Berg) wrote:
>] Indeed. So do several other daemons. This bug has been introduced
>] around 1.3.60 or so. I've been meaning to track it down, but didn't
>] have time to do so yet. In any case, SO_REUSEADDR doesn't work
>] on Linux.

>Could your problem be related to the following security problem which
>was fixed in Linux around 1.3.60. I remember changing xntpd for it to

Yes. Most likely. This "fix" should be checked.

-- 
Sincerely,                                                          srb@cuci.nl
           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).


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