Re: TCP hanging on CLOSE?

Q (Q@ping.be)
Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:36:15 +0100


Romano Giannetti wrote:
>
> ...I had a router crash this morning, and fetchmail dropped some
> connection for timeout. Now I have :
>
> Active Internet connections (w/o servers)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
> tcp 80 0 pern:2280 upco.es:pop CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp 80 0 pern:2273 upco.es:pop CLOSE_WAIT
> tcp 0 0 pern:2243 upco.es:pop CLOSE
> tcp 0 0 pern:2230 upco.es:pop CLOSE
> [...20 more connection]
> tcp 0 1 pern:2185 upco.es:pop CLOSE
> tcp 0 1 pern:2184 upco.es:pop CLOSE
> tcp 0 1 pern:2183 upco.es:pop CLOSE
> tcp 0 1 pern:2182 upco.es:pop CLOSE
>
> This ones are here since this morning (it's about 10 hours)
>
> I supposed that after some time they would be forcibly closed. Server is
> pop3 daemon, I am not sure what machine but I think a SG (sendmail
> says IRIS 2.0).
>

I had the same probably with a 2.2.1, I could not reach that host. It
was like that for a few days. I had to kill inet, then it took an other
10 minutes before it was gone.

If I remeber good it was connected to ftp, and had 1 byte in the sendq.

Q

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