The same reproducibly occurs with ypbind on our Tru64 4.0D machines. Tracing it shows that it is probably an kernel rather than application bug. select (4096, 0x11ffff608={0x00000060,...}, 0x0={}, 0x0={}, 0x11ffff608={}) = 1 [ , {0x00000020,...}, {}, {}, ] accept (5, 0x11fffefc8, 0x11fffefc0=16) = That is, the select indicates that the socket is ready, but calling accept blocks - presumably the connection has been dropped from the listen queue in the meantime. Matt On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:27:21AM -0600, Jason Johns - SAS(IT) wrote: > Today we were using nmap to scan our network and when we scanned our > Tru64 machines, telnet and ftp froze and timed out. We could not make > any connections to those ports and existing connections froze. New > connections were denied for about a minute after the scan was finished. > I've checked with Compaq and on Securityfocus and neither place has any > knowledge of this. > > We are running Tru64 Unix 4.0D patch kit 3 on Alpha 4100's and 8400's. > The nmap command line that was used is: > nmap -T Polite -O -p 23,139 -oM /tmp/lst 'xxx.xxx.16-44.*' > > > /Jason Johns >