Re: bind sucks?
Philip Gladstone (philip@raptor.com)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 14:44:00 -0400
Michael K. Johnson wrote:
>
> Philip Gladstone writes:
> >I just tried the socktest.pl that was posted earlier on my (roughly
> >pre2)
> >system, and it ran cleanly. Maybe there is another problem.......
>
> Entirely possible, AFAIK. With the mirror session we were testing
> this time, the mirror process was running on a remote computer, and
> the ftp server was running 2.0.30-pre2 (DaveM's version). We had
> seen bugs in both directions before, I'm pretty sure; perhaps
> socktest.pl shows up one bug but not another?
If you were creating connections at a high rate, then it is possible
that you ran into the BSD time wait reuse bug. This is fixed in
pre3 (I think). Thus DaveM's pre2 fixed the port number allocation
problem, and pre3 fixed the BSD time wait problem, but nothing
(except my hacked up version) fixes both!
How are the problems with DaveM's pre2 manifesting themselves?
philip
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