Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 05:56:35PM +0100, Shawn Houston wrote: > > Help. > > > > The 2.2.18pre series from Alan Cox, through pre21, has a problem with > > connection in CLOSE_WAIT that data still in the buffers. The connections > > never go away: > > CLOSE_WAIT means what it says -- it is waiting for the close from the application. > > Try killing it. > > -Andi I was about to send a flame, but thought better, as I do not know your level of expertise, nor you mine. rdate finishes, so there is no need to kill it. I am just going to go look in the source myself. This represents a serious DOS attack and should be fixed. Really. -Shawn -- Shawn Houston mhouston@gci.net - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
